Denver Teachers Approve Pay-for-Performance Plan
Denver
teachers have voted to embrace a new pay plan that would stop rewarding
them for years on the job and start recognizing specific skills and
achievements in the classroom.
Approval from the teachers' union puts the closely watched plan into the hands of Denver voters, who will be asked in 2005 for a property-tax increase to pay for the $25 million annual cost.
Members of the Denver Classroom Teachers Association supported the proposal, written as part of the teachers' contract, by a decisive 59 percent to 41 percent. About 2,700 of the union's 3,200 members cast ballots. The 70,000-student district...
This article is available to subscribers only.
To keep reading this article and more, subscribe now or purchase this article.
Subscribe to Education Week and Save
Get a full year and save up to 45%!
Viewed
Emailed
Recommended
Commented
- Middle School Language Arts Teacher
- TEAM Schools, Newark, NJ
- Chief Academic Officer
- Adams 14, Commerce City, CO
- Elementary School Teacher
- Success Academy Charter Schools, New York, NY
- Program Coordinator
- Institute for Educational Advancement, South Pasadena, CA
- Project Manager- (Hawaii)
- Pearson Education, HI


