Tag: Pay for Performance
Day 1 of the Denver teachers’ strike: Scenes from the...
More than half of Denver Public Schools teachers stayed off the job Monday, triggering mass student walkouts and chaos in the hallways of some...
How a once-promising merit pay system led Denver teachers to the...
Jeff Buck was the very first teacher to sign up for Denver’s revolutionary pay-for-performance system in 2005. More than 13 years later, he is...
Talks collapse, Denver teachers to vote on strike Vote takes place...
The Denver teachers union will hold a vote on whether to strike after months of negotiations over pay ended in deadlock.
The bargaining team of...
All eyes are on Denver’s teacher pay negotiations as a strike...
Denver Public Schools and the Denver Classroom Teachers Association have been negotiating for more than a year against a backdrop of widespread protests over teacher pay.
Now,...
Douglas County schools candidate draws ethics complaint
In what some might see as a revealing small chapter of contemporary U.S. politics, an ugly school board election in Douglas County has seen the local Republican Party use hard-line ideological arguments to promote preferred "freedom-loving" Republican candidates over teachers' union-endorsed "liberal" Republican candidates. In a race that sees Republicans eating Republicans, the point seems to be less about the candidates than it is about the kind of school system a right-wing GOP would like to install in Douglas County.