Christina scraps teacher incentive plans
Five members voted to scrap the plans, with board member George Evans opposed and member Gina Backus abstaining.
The Christina School Board voted Tuesday night to scrap its planned teacher incentive program, effectively bowing out of $2.3 million in federal Race to the Top money.
Story after story, I am appalled by the News Journal failure to factcheck their new ed beat reporter -
1. Christina did not scrap its retention plan. Christina requested amendment to our existing RTTT plan. DOE rejected the amendment. Thus, we can't implement!
2. Christina voted to offer another amendment to the plan to re-allocate funds to provide non-monetary attraction and rentention incentives. Christina wants to put technology into the hands of our high needs and low performing schools.
The NEW amendment has been vetted by CEA and our teachers have informed us that closing the digital divide is more of an incentive to move to a high needs or low performing school than Sec. Murphy's personal pay-off for performance plan.
Teachers are telling us what they need to want to work in our most challenging schools. Christina is listening. The DOE has not. And the News Journal is committing journalistic malpractice at best.
3. The amendment is one more effort to reach common ground with DOE on retraction and attention. We are sincerely trying to negotiate a compromise that protects Year 4 Funding.
Hey, Albright, where were you last night? Cause you weren't at the CSD meeting that your own paper begged the public to attend. And why don't you tell us where DOE was last night? Where was Murphy? Where was Ruczkowski? DOE is depriving my students of $2.3 million and they won't come to a public meeting to explain their decision to our parents and tax payers?
Spin it however you want - but the NJ is certainly doing a complete disservice to my constituents and its readership. It's propagandizing! My journalism professors taught me better. An Journalist doesn't spin story - a journalist tells a story!
Canon's of Journalism, anyone? Ever read it?
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