Speaking of unions....
A school superintendent in Rhode Island is trying to fix an abysmally bad school system.
Her plan calls for teachers at a local high school to work 25 minutes longer per day, each lunch with students once in a while, and help with tutoring. The teachers' union has refused to accept these apparently onerous demands.
The teachers at the high school make $70,000-$78,000, as compared to a median income in the town of $22,000. This exemplifies a nationwide trend in which public sector workers make far more than their private-sector counterparts (with better benefits).
The school superintendent has responded to the union's stubbornness by firing every teacher and administrator at the school.
http://www.businessinsider.com/henry-blodget-unionized-rhode-island-teachers-refuse-to-work-25-minutes-more-per-day-so-town-fires-all-of-them-2010-2
LOL
There's the district pay scale, would mean the entire building is maxing out + supplementals to get to that $70-78,000 "average"
http://www.ntlongcber.com/cber/docs/_CF.htmAlso, you butchered the crap out of the administration demands, here they are in full:
KEY POINTS
Six conditions Central Falls High School teachers must accept by Friday to keep their jobs:
Increase length of school day by 25 minutes to provide more instructional time for students.
Formalize tutoring schedule so struggling students have extra help for one hour before and after school.
Agree to eat lunch with students one day a week to build stronger relationships.
Attend two weeks of professional development in the summer at a rate of $30 an hour.
Stay after school for 90 minutes one day each week to work with fellow teachers analyzing student work and test data and discussing ways to improve teaching at a rate of $30 an hour if Gallo can find grant financing.
Accept more rigorous evaluations by a third-party starting March 1.
All that said, this was a failing school for 4 years to get to that point and NCLB is pretty clear about the outcomes, if I were a teacher there I'd have been in a panic for the past two years. Would be interesting to see the actual numbers, but from what is floating around, it was a horribly failing school. I don't know all the details, but that building principal/superintendent should've been making reforms years ago and not being able to negotiate with the union is not a valid excuse.