District News Roundup

Sandra Feldman, the president of the United Federation of Teachers, has called for creating a new category of "master teachers'' who would be paid more than other teachers in New York City.

To establish advanced standards for these teachers and certify that they have met them, Ms. Feldman proposed creating a commission for professional teaching standards that would model itself after the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.

In her remarks April 4 at the union's spring conference, Ms. Feldman said such a system would be "objective,'' thus distinguishing it from "the wholly discredited...