Productivity and cost improvement goals or labour-related issues (e.g. to improve worker safety or to overcome labour shortages) are generally the drivers for this trend.
Teachers in schools where students reached certain improvement goals would receive an extra reward: round-trip airline tickets to anywhere in the country.
Teachers in schools where students reached certain improvement goals would get an extra reward: round-trip airline tickets to anywhere in the country.
Given the deteriorating outlook for Wall Street, Mr. Hanbury and other analysts had assumed that Merrill would abandon the ambitious profit-improvement goals it had set for itself.
Under the federal No Child Left Behind law, schools are required to meet improvement goals or face penalties including, in the worst cases, the loss of jobs.
Officials at the district, which gives $2,000 cash bonuses to educators at schools that meet improvement goals, said they did not believe there had been cheating.
The proposal on the table is to give the tickets to every teacher and counselor in a school whose students reach certain improvement goals, said Ms. Amlung and a Board of Education official who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
Recently, Mr. Levy proposed giving $1,500 in cash bonuses to every certified teacher who agreed to work over the summer, and round-trip airline tickets to anywhere in the United States to summer school teachers whose students met certain improvement goals.
Under the proposal, offered in contract discussions with the United Federation of Teachers, the Board of Education would give a round-trip ticket to anywhere in the country to every teacher in a school whose students reached certain improvement goals during the summer session.
The proposals would also set stricter rules for compliance with a series of annual performance-improvement goals aimed at lowering air traffic management fees, reducing congestion in European skies and easing the burden on the environment.
