Today's tray of hot district morsels ... ** McKenzie asks how to get rid of teachers who aren't adding value to a classroom. A better question: How do we get the best teachers we already have into the neediest schools?...
Today's tray of hot district morsels ... ** What am I missing? $4.6 million in textbooks sit unused in an Irving ISD warehouse, yet a district official says it's not "wasteful." Well, that's $4.6 million that you don't have to...
So I've been kicking around this notion of 'combat pay' for about two years now, primarily because I've got an unnatural fascination with how we identify quality teachers and how we utilize them, or don't utilize them, as the case...
Superintendent Hinojosa says the district wants to boost the bonuses by $4,000 that it pays to *good* teachers who transfer into one of the district's 26 low-performing schools. This notion -- un-tactfully called "combat pay" by many, including me --...
Like most big-city districts, DISD struggles recruiting experienced, quality teachers into its most-troubled high schools. Last year, the district began offering $6,000 bonuses to teachers with above average CEI's if they would move to a low-performing campus. Only a few...
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