The system will be implemented over the next five years. All new teachers and a fifth of existing teachers already scheduled for performance reviews will enter it immediately. Teachers will first be paid based on evaluations in the 2002-2003 school year. Teachers receiving the accomplished ranking must receive the highest score in all four domains. Both school administrators and trained peer evaluators will conduct the reviews.
Teachers also have the right to ask for another review if they disagree with the first one.
But they face the possibility of losing pay if a second review results in the same ranking. CPS Superintendent Steven J. Adamowski was traveling Friday night and could not be reached for comment. This profession alizes teaching locally, and that we feel is a big step. During several teacher forums leading to the vote, union members worried about whether the system would be implemented fairly and whether teachers would be graded on how well their students did as opposed to how well they taught. That's our challenge and our focus from now on.