Merit Pay Fight, Politics Alter N.Y.C. Summer Program
New York City's summer school program, a $170 million effort that had originally targeted up to 320,000 struggling students for academic aid this year, has become caught in a crossfire between some of the city's most powerful political forces and one of public education's most controversial issues.
The turmoil has centered on Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani's plan to give cash bonuses to teachers who raise student achievement during the five-week summer program, and the opposition by the city teachers' union to singling out individual teachers for merit-based bonuses, which it views as divisive.
Earlier this month, interim Schools Chancellor Harold O. Levy announced that the parties were at an impasse over the issue. And, for the district to be able to hire enough teachers to provide summer school, it would have...
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