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Friday, September 18, 2009

Teacher Beat: UPDATED: Unionized Boston Charter Will Decide New Pay Structure


Teacher Beat: UPDATED: Unionized Boston Charter Will Decide New Pay Structure:

"The details of the differential pay program will be hashed out during the 2009-10 school year by a committee of teachers and administrators formed to come up with the pay plan.

Teachers will get traditional raises that year, and the program will go into effect for the 2010-11 school year (though the contract will allow it to be tweaked after that).

The only stipulation in the contract about this pay program is that it can't be based on student test scores, said Thomas Gosnell, the president of AFT Massachusetts. Other measures of student performance would be allowable, he added."