By Naomi Nix, NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
NEWARK — Newark Public Schools announced this week that nine schools will become “turnaround schools” during the next school year in an effort to curb struggling performance.
The designation will mean that teachers will be asked to sign election-to-work agreements, which may require them to work for a longer school day, go through two additional weeks of professional development in the summer and work on multiple Saturdays, assistant superintendent Brad Haggerty said.
[…]John Abeigon, director of operations for the Newark Teachers Union, said the union conducted a survey about two months ago of teachers who are working under election-to-work agreements in renew and turnaround schools.
Of the 262 responding teachers who signed those agreements during the 2014-2015 school year, almost 44 percent said they did not plan to sign up again next year, according to Abeigon.
“Cami is going to have a little bit of chaos next year,” he said referring to superintendent Cami Anderson.
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