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...joint effort by the school district and the local teachers' union to recruit and retain good teachers. Since February, however, union and district leaders have been butting heads over a series of changes to ProComp proposed by superintendent Michael Bennet. The biggest sticking point is his proposal to cap base salaries while increasing performance-based bonuses. The protracted contract negotiations already led some teachers to stage sick-outs in May; others have been handing out to parents flyers denouncing the district's contract offer as school kicks off this week. And if the two sides can't resolve their differences...
...Under the system, teachers are paid a base salary and then rewarded with bonuses if they meet any of nine metrics, such as working in a high-needs school, getting a good evaluation from their principal or having their students exceed expectations on state exams. All new teachers must participate, but ProComp has been popular among veterans as well - half of the district's teachers have signed up since...
...changes that could lead to all teachers seeing a jump in their pay, some by as much as $9,000 annually. But many of those increases would come in boosts to incentive pay. And while the district's offer would raise starting salaries from $35,000 to $42,000, base salaries of more-tenured teachers would not rise...
...West also needs Moscow's cooperation on issues a lot more serious than Georgia, particularly in resolving the Iran nuclear standoff. "At stake is more than the crisis in the Caucasus - but also whether Russia and the West can share a core base of values to combat terrorism, stop proliferation, and promote energy security," said Brookings Institution analysts Carlos Pascual and Steven Pifer in a 10-point plan of action entitled "Securing Georgia," published on Monday...
...Still, Poland is trying to take Russia's sensitivities into account. Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski confirmed that Poland would honor an earlier proposal allowing the Russians to inspect the future base. "We want to continue the dialog with the Russian side, we want them to convince themselves that the installation is not directed against them," Sikorski wrote in the Polish daily Fakt. "Because of the brutal Russian action in Georgia, emotions rule now. But when the battle axes fall, we will still be neighbors." Yet clearly uneasy ones...