A good living wage for NYC teachers?
And now, for something completely different, a new middle school in Washington Heights is offering its teachers a salary of $125,000 plus an annual bonus of up to $25,000 more. What's more: in a breathtaking valuation of pedagogical excellence over bureaucratic skill, it will pay its principal only $90,000.
The school's innovative founder, Zeke Vanderhoek, is basing his charter school's revolutionary salary system on research that shows that excellent teachers, more than any other factor, make the difference in the quality of education a school provides. The Equity Project Charter School will test his hypothesis that they should be compensated accordingly.
It's about time.
My favorite remark comes from 29-year-old teacher and TEP applicant Claudia Taylor:
The school's innovative founder, Zeke Vanderhoek, is basing his charter school's revolutionary salary system on research that shows that excellent teachers, more than any other factor, make the difference in the quality of education a school provides. The Equity Project Charter School will test his hypothesis that they should be compensated accordingly.
It's about time.
My favorite remark comes from 29-year-old teacher and TEP applicant Claudia Taylor:
“I’m tired of making decisions about whether or not I can afford to go to a movie on a Friday night when I work literally 55 hours a week. . . . It’s very frustrating. I’m feeling like I either have to leave New York City or leave teaching, because I don’t want to have a roommate at 30 years old.”Read the whole story in the New York Times here, and apply here.
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