To William Hanson and the School Board:
For our discussion on budgeting and finance on Monday I would like to discuss Minnesota’s Q-Comp program. I have been told that ISD 709 would be eligible for about one and a half million dollars of financing should we take advantage of this. It would be a ripe issue for discussion at the Quality Steering Committee and we should discuss this at our Committee of the Whole..
I see that there is an August deadline for application to it. http://education.state.mn.us/MDE/SchSup/QComp/
I also understand that many of our neighboring school district’s avail themselves of this extra financing. It was, perhaps still is, controversial with teacher’s unions because it is “merit pay.” It requires some accountability and teacher’s unions have been suspicious of who and how this accountability is assessed.
I can understand. I was held accountable by the union leading to a recent complaint by the union against me.
