Len Lipkin

Site Selection, Hooray!

The recent teacher contract at the School District of Philadelphia greatly expands the use of site selection across the district.

Len Lipkin

Philly Teachers Need Anger Management?

I started this blog just before the new contract was signed with the Philadelphia teacher’s union.  At the time, I was supportive of the contract and the innovative/proactive changes to the traditional structure of the contract.  It also seemed like public and media reaction was generally positive. Now that the new contract is off of the front pages, however, there is a vocal group of teachers who...

Len Lipkin

Reactions to the New Philadelphia Teachers Contract

I posted before that I feel positive about the contract from what I had heard at that point but that I was interested to hear what the experts had to say.  Here are some more reactions from local media sources. Valerie Russ, The Daily News, 1/23/2010, Teachers, school district approve contract Dale Mezzacappa, The Notebook, 1/23/2010, AFT president: New contract a breakthrough Ron Whitehorne, The...

Len Lipkin

New Philly Teacher Contract Has Performance Incentives

It is definitely nice to see a contract negotiation that has such a prominent component targeted at improving the system, not just boosting the (admittedly low) salaries and benefits of teachers in the district.