Pact scheduled for ratification vote Wednesday includes rules for evaluations, advanced degrees
By John Mooney
Three weeks since it was announced, a new and potentially historic labor agreement between Newark public schools and their teachers union will finally go to a ratification vote tomorrow.
Since the agreement was unveiled on Oct. 18, much of the attention has gone to plans for new performance bonuses for exceptional teachers, as well as sizable raises for everyone else. There are provisions for teacher evaluations and a peer-review process for determining the evaluations.
But with the vote delayed two weeks by Hurricane Sandy and closing of the city’s schools, a number of other provisions have also emerged as intriguing and perhaps even groundbreaking.
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