Entering her third year on the job, Newark’s state-appointed schools superintendent, Cami Anderson, is up for a second year of performance bonuses of up to $50,000 and negotiating the goals for a third.
In the first year, she hit six of seven performance benchmarks and won a $41,085 bonus on top of her $247,500 base salary, according to the state.
In the year that just ended, at least four qualitative measures appear to have been met, including completion of the new teacher contract, which includes its own performance bonuses for teachers. The other three quantitative goals are tied directly to student test scores, which have not yet been returned to the district, officials said.
In each of the three years, the four qualitative measures together amounted to a 10 percent bonus, and the three quantitative ones account for another 10 percent. Under the contract, her base salary does not change.
This next year will be a critical one. It is the final year in Anderson’s existing deal and the year in which she has said she wants to revamp the way schools are held accountable and how students choose their schools.
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