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Teachers, city reach extra-hour agreement

By James Vaznis
Globe Staff / June 21, 2010
Boston school officials announced yesterday that they had reached a tentative agreement with the teachers’ union on a plan to overhaul the city’s 12 underperforming schools, in a new state negotiating process that attempted to resolve a divisive battle over compensating teachers for working extra hours.
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The agreement calls for having teachers work about an extra hour a day, equaling 190 hours over the school year, while paying them an extra $4,100 a year. The pay rate is less than half what the union sought, but greater than what Superintendent Carol R. Johnson initially proposed: no extra pay at all.
The agreement includes a number of other proposals, such as using MCAS results to finan cially reward teachers whose students raise their academic performance.
High school teachers will also be judged on student attendance and graduation rates.
Johnson and Mayor Thomas M. Menino issued statements praising the agreement as a strong step forward in overhauling the schools’ instruction and

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Teachers, city reach extra-hour agreement

Boston school officials announced yesterday that they had reached a tentative agreement with the teachers’ union on a plan to overhaul the city’s 12 underperforming schools, in a new state negotiating process that attempted to resolve a divisive battle over compensating teachers for working extra hours. (By James Vaznis, Globe Staff)

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