Baltimore City teachers will work under a new two-year agreement that promises “real-time compensation” for professional development and annual raises under a revamped career ladder.
School commissioners voted to adopt the updated contract in a meeting Tuesday night after months of stalled negotiations. Last October, the board let a career ladder structure in place since 2011 expire to establish a new model more in-line with the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future.
The Baltimore Teachers Union raised concerns from the get-go about creating an entirely new system. Zach Taylor, the union’s director of research and negotiations, told WYPR in July that district leaders wanted to add extra barriers to earning salary increases from national board certification or graduate degrees…