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Show IBQflOD(BSattfi(IDDn Career ladder to be considered The Park City School District is up against a $100,000 deadline. In order to qualify for its allotment of state career ladder funding, it must submit its finalized proposal to the state office of Education Wednesday. Wednes-day. The proposal, as drawn up last spring by a committee of teachers and administrators, came under fire from school board member Nancy McComb last month and has since been revised again. Teachers and administrators met to discuss the revisions yesterday and a final proposal will come before the school board for approval Tuesday night. School superintendent Tony Mitchell said the most recent revisions are minor. He said he wanted to stress "the proposal is not the product of any individual board member, teacher, administrator, but . reflects the interests and concerns of all of those groups." The Park City career ladder, as proposed, allows teachers to apply for promotion and additional pay by submitting a dossier to a panel of teachers, parents " and administrators. adminis-trators. The dossier must include four or eight recommended "lines of evidence" which include student, peer and parent evaluations along with national teacher testing scores. Mitchell said 40 teachers already have been granted a promotion through this process and will receive $1,500 each if the state approves the Park City proposal. Mitchell added the school board also had allotted part of the money to pay all of the districts' teachers for an additional day of school to be used for an evening of parent conferences. Part of the funding also had been earmarked to pay teachers for taking on the additional responsibilities of revising the core curriculum at each school. The most recent revisions of the plan were suggested by the State Office of Education and involved the dossier evaluation process, Mitchell said. "The challenge has been to answer the concerns of the teachers while still meeting the state guidelines," guide-lines," Mitchell said. He added that "you don't jump from a system where the only source of teacher evaluation comes from the principal to a system which draws information from student test scores, parents, etc. without growing pains." |