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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Don't know why Mr. Luna would work with teachers on
a new pay plan when he already knows it all.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sue </FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=ringoshirl@moscow.com href="mailto:ringoshirl@moscow.com">Shirley
Ringo</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, February 29, 2008 11:57
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] iSTARS
(light)</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Visionaries:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The Senate defeated Superintendent Tom Luna's pay
for performance bill today by a vote of 19-16. The entire process has
taken a tremendous amount of time. There were two proposals put forth by
Mr. Luna, iSTARS and ISTARS light. In my opinion, both reflected Mr.
Luna's lack of educational experience. The first included a thinly
veiled attack on teachers by requiring that they give up their continuing
contract protections in order to advance. After that part of the plan
was dropped, there remained the unfortunate proposal to use a single multiple
choice test for the measure of student progress upon which to
base teacher pay.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I hope that Superintendent Luna will be willing
to work with teachers, school board members, administrators, and others to
develop a credible pay for performance plan. There are good plans in
other states - they were years in the making. It is a complex
issue.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Shirley Ringo</FONT></DIV>
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