190 Newark Teachers Receive Merit Bonuses

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Lisa Fleisher in the Wall Street Journal:

Newark, in a first for a large New Jersey public-school system, has given out bonuses of up to $12,500 to its highest-rated teachers, inaugurating a controversial merit-pay program being watched across the nation.  

A group of 190 Newark teachers learned last week they would receive bonuses, paid for through the foundation started by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. About $1.4 million in bonuses were given out to teachers: $5,000 for being rated highly effective, another $5,000 for working at a poorly performing school and another $2,500 for teaching a hard-to-staff subject. Those included certain math, science and language subjects. 

About 5% of the 3,200-member teaching force got the money, one of the more contentious parts of the contract approved in November by the Newark Teachers Union. Eleven teachers received the top bonus of $12,500.

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2 Comments

  • kallikak, August 26, 2013 @ 2:52 pm Reply

    Are these bonuses pensionable?

  • Lisa, September 4, 2013 @ 1:40 am Reply

    No they aren't, kallikak. Also, NPS later corrected the #s they gave: There were 17 teachers who received the top bonus.

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