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...Ursetta and other union leaders say they don't want to dismantle ProComp; they just want to hold off making the changes until they can be studied more. The first definitive report on ProComp's impact on student achievement won't be completed until late 2009, though early results are promising. One pilot study found that students whose teachers enrolled in the program performed slightly better on standardized tests compared with students with non-ProComp teachers. Denver also saw statewide assessment scores improve substantially this past school year, with the district now outperforming state gains in all grade levels...
...Denver's ProComp program, short for the Professional Compensation System for Teachers, was implemented in 2006 in a 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...
...earning more money the longer they served. But a growing number of schools have begun to tie pay to performance. About 20% of U.S. children are now in school districts experimenting with merit pay, according to the National Center on Performance Incentives (NCPI) at Vanderbilt University. Denver's ProComp was one of the first of these programs, and everyone from local teachers to Barack Obama has cited it as a role model. "The whole education world is watching right now," James Guthrie, a public-policy-and-education professor at Vanderbilt and NCPI's executive director, says of the high-profile...
...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...
...soon to say if ProComp will raise achievement in Denver, but a pilot study found that students of teachers who enrolled on a trial basis performed better on standardized tests than other students. The program is already successful by another measure: raising the number of teachers applying to work in Denver's most troubled schools. Jake Firman, 22, who joined Teach for America right out of college in 2007, says he chose Denver from a list of 26 cities largely because of ProComp. "I thought it was a very cool idea," says Firman, who stands to earn extra...