School Board Adopts Accountability Proposal
The Los Angeles Board of Education on Tuesday unanimously adopted the framework for an accountability plan designed to tie every employee’s pay and promotions to student achievement.
Several of the 13 broad principles approved by the board will have to be accepted by the district’s unions. Those measures include increasing the authority of principals to make staff selections and reconstituting the district’s salary structure to provide pay incentives for those who obtain specific knowledge and skills that are needed.
Gordon Wohlers, assistant superintendent for policy research and development, said he expects to begin negotiations with the unions before the current three-year contract expires in 2000.
The ambitious accountability proposal was drawn from the recommendations of a task force of consultants assembled last spring by Supt. Ruben Zacarias.
The principles include establishing annual growth objectives for each grade level at each school and conducting assessments on how well each student and each school is doing to meet those objectives.
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