I’ve written a couple of times about the contract negotiations at Hatboro-Horsham, where the School Board is trying to inject some element of merit pay into the salaries teachers receive. Here is an update from the Intelligencer on-line, posted on the 19th of October, reporting little movement in those contract talks.
But the bargaining position of the School Board appears not to be backing down from this mechanism in its contract proposal, including raises tied to superior performance and reductions tied to unsatisfactory performance. (The District’s website has a side-by-side comparison of their proposal vs. that of the teachers’ union.)
According to the Intelligencer’s post:
School board member Barbara LaSorsa reinforced the district’s position that any new contract should base raises on teachers’ performances. She said many of the district’s residents have jobs with performance-based raises.
I think the tying of teacher’s salaries or raises to some sort of merit-based accountability at hatboro-Horsham would be a step that could impact future contracts at Council Rock, so their result should be watched closely.
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