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Thursday, November 2, 2006
No raise (sort of) for Dayton teachers
Sources tell me the deal struck Wednesday between Dayton teachers and the school board includes no raise for the current school year. Instead, teachers will get a one-time payment equivalent to 1 percent of their annual pay. The advantage to the district is that base pay is unchanged from last year, which makes future raises slightly smaller going forward. For the teachers, they get something rather than nothing — the “no raise” that the board originally proposed.
The deal also keeps health care premiums steady. This was a major issue for the teachers, who last year had to pay extra when the district’s health care costs exceeded a pre-set cap.
I also hear this may be a two-year deal, with the second year including a clause that allows negotiations to be re-opened if “economic conditions change,” such as, I assume, a levy failure in May. Teachers will get packets detailing the contract on Friday and vote on it Wednesday at 4 p.m. at Dunbar High School.
What other details have you heard about the deal? Please post them in the comments.
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Fordham cracks down
The once highly regarded W.E.B. DuBois charter school in Cincinnati is in danger of being closed again.
You may recall that the school’s founder was criminally charged for alleged financial misdeeds and that the school’s sponsor is a nationally-known charter school champion, the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation.
Well Fordham has stepped up its scrutiny of its affiliated schools, according to a story by Jen Mrozowski in today’s Cincinnati Enquirer.
In an evaluation, Fordham said DuBois and its sister schools need to get their acts together or face closure.
This is more in line with the “tough love” approach to sponsoring that Fordham promised to provide when it began overseeing schools in Ohio. But it remains a stunner that DuBois could go so quickly from what some thought was the best charter school in the state to one which Fordham describes in a report as having “scant evidence of a coherent education program.”
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