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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a ditrct quote from NPR this morning: "We have the highest first-year teacher salary in the country, and the fastest path to a six-figure salary", says Chancellor Wilson.
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They consistently say that as if DC doesn't consistently rank among the most expensive cities to live. I would certainly hope that we would be paid more than teachers in Omaha. What they don't tell you is the percentage of teachers who actually get the carrot that they keep dangling in front of us. God help you if you start in DCPS as a first-year teacher. I've never seen another district that fires first year teachers so indiscriminately. There's no opportunity to develop. You either sink or swim. If you manage to somehow skate by, then your salary/step is frozen for a year unless you're one of the rare prodigies who earn a high IMPACT score their first year.

DCPS banks on not having to pay most first years a salary increase. They also know that most of the teachers won't take the fast track to six figures. At my school there were too many people getting high IMPACT scores, so they started sending people from downtown around with our admins to shadow them while they do their observations. Your score now has to be defended before it's posted. Maybe they're preventing favoritism or maybe they're just protecting their budget.   [/quote]

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