Contract includes raises and a new teacher evaluation system.
The Medford School Committee approved a new teachers union contract for Medford Public Schools this week, one that will run through the end of the 2014-2015 school year. Medford Superintendent Roy Belson said negotiations between the district and the teachers union lasted nearly a year. While the contract includes pay raises for teachers, it also includes provisions for more stringent teacher evaluations in following new state guidelines. Belson said the contract still must be approved by the state. According to Belson, the contract includes a 2 percent raise for teachers in September 2013, another 2 percent raise in September 2014 and a 1.25 percent raise midway through the 2014-2015 school year. Additionally, the new contract adds an …
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New York City mayor is kicking in cash for his hometown schools, according to Boston.com.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a 1960 graduate of Medford High School, is donating $50,000 to Medford Public Schools in memory of his late mother, according to a Boston.com report. Superintendent Roy Belson told Boston.com the funds will be used as part of the $3.3 million technology program upgrade that is currently taking place at the schools. Belson said this is a departure from Bloomberg's usual practice of making anonymous donations in Medford. The Medford School Committee will take up the donation at tonight's meeting, which takes place at 7 p.m. in City Hall. Here is the agenda.
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11:26 am on Sunday, March 24, 2013
Terrorist Professor Bill Ayers and Obama’s Federal School Curriculum In the tradition of John Dewey, multiple “perspectives” and “critical thinking” are emphasized over the accumulation of “facts.” Common Core advertises itself as promoting “skills,” rather than content. The skills, though, do not promise to make students more knowledgeable about literature or history, but to make them “critical … more ›