http://blog.ednewscolorado.org/2009/08/18/dont-look-back-tulsa-might-be-gaining-on-you/ EdNewsColorado Blog Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:32:33 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://blog.ednewscolorado.org/2009/08/18/dont-look-back-tulsa-might-be-gaining-on-you/comment-page-1/#comment-2280 Ben Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:43:20 +0000 http://blog.ednewscolorado.org/?p=2989#comment-2280 Thanks for the comment, Kathy. Appreciate the added perspective you bring. I tried to keep this particular focus posted on teacher pay, but agree that the compensation redesign should not be exclusively targeted at them. As I read it, the Tulsa / Gates Foundation plan also includes a modest redesign in school principal pay based on school-wide performance measures. District administrators, not so much that I saw. Thanks for the comment, Kathy. Appreciate the added perspective you bring. I tried to keep this particular focus posted on teacher pay, but agree that the compensation redesign should not be exclusively targeted at them. As I read it, the Tulsa / Gates Foundation plan also includes a modest redesign in school principal pay based on school-wide performance measures. District administrators, not so much that I saw.

]]> http://blog.ednewscolorado.org/2009/08/18/dont-look-back-tulsa-might-be-gaining-on-you/comment-page-1/#comment-2275 Kathy Hansen Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:05:34 +0000 http://blog.ednewscolorado.org/?p=2989#comment-2275 I hope the non-educating worker salaries are not left out of this important dialogue. As you know, I'm always harping about the non-educating school district work force, because it is completely unregulated. Part of the reason that teachers are reluctant to bite the bullet on salaries is that they're comparing their wages to the administrative staff. All non-administrative classified workers should be held to a merit-based hiring and retention mechanism analogous to civil service (warning, further harp ahead: the state Constitution already provides for this but the text is not being enforced). The salaries and job descriptions of all administrative workers should either be controlled with some similar design so that only those completely warranting retention will remain -- or the information should be made totally transparent to the public so it can be controlled through political means. Otherwise, all this dialogue about teacher quality and pay is great, but it doesn't reach where the real dough is going nor affect the majority of those actually receiving paychecks from the respective school districts. I hope the non-educating worker salaries are not left out of this important dialogue.
As you know, I’m always harping about the non-educating school district work force, because it is completely unregulated. Part of the reason that teachers are reluctant to bite the bullet on salaries is that they’re comparing their wages to the administrative staff.
All non-administrative classified workers should be held to a merit-based hiring and retention mechanism analogous to civil service (warning, further harp ahead: the state Constitution already provides for this but the text is not being enforced).
The salaries and job descriptions of all administrative workers should either be controlled with some similar design so that only those completely warranting retention will remain — or the information should be made totally transparent to the public so it can be controlled through political means.
Otherwise, all this dialogue about teacher quality and pay is great, but it doesn’t reach where the real dough is going nor affect the majority of those actually receiving paychecks from the respective school districts.

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