Title: OCR Document
Author: Readiris
Company: I.R.I.S.

MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE PALM BEACH COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT AND THE PALM BEACH COUNTY CLASSROOM TEACHERS ASSOCIATION
The above parties by the signatures of their respective representatives below agree this - day of
	, 200- , to the following Performance Pay Plan for Instructional employees effective with the 2004
2005 school year and thereafter.
1.
2.
Effective 2004-2005 and thereafter, the Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test (FCAT) will be used as the primary indicator to determine the eligibility of instructional employees for the Performance Pay Plan. More specifically, each school will be listed first by school level (elementary K-5, middle 6-8 and high school 9-12). Schools with grades that span more than one school level (e.g., K-6 or 6-12) will be placed into one of the three (3) school levels (elementary, middle or high schools) based on the majority of students in the various grade levels at the school. For example, a 6-12 school will be placed in the middle school level if a majority of its students are enrolled in grades 6-8, but would be placed in the high school level if a majority of its students are enrolled in grades 9-12.
a.
All schools within each level will be ranked in descending order based on the percentage of students enrolled in each school that school year who are eligible for a free or reduced lunch.
After ranking the schools within each school level by the percentage of students eligible for a free or reduced lunch, the list will be stratified/divided into sub-groups by taking the number of schools on that list and dividing it by 10 and rounding the quotient up if the remainder is .5 or greater; or rounding the number down if the remainder is .4 or less. For example, if there are 96 eligible schools in a school level, 96 is divided by 10 which equals 9.6. Because.6 is greater than .5, the whole number is rounded up to 10. There will be 10 stratifications/sub-groups in this example. The first sub-group will be the first 9 listed schools and the second sub-group will be the next 9 school and so on. The final 6 sub-groups will contain 10 schools and determined by counting down the next 10 schools for each of these final 6 sub-groups. A second example, if there are 93 eligible schools in a school level, 93 is divided by 10 which equals 9.3. Because.3 is less than .5, the whole number is rounded down to 9. There will be 9 stratifications/sub-groups in this example. The first sub-group will be the first 10 listed schools and the second sub-group will be the next 10 school and so on. The final 3 subgroups will contain 11 schools and determined by counting down the next 11 schools for each of these final 3 sub-groups. The Department of Research & Evaluation will establish these rankings and list the sub-groups within each school level as provided herein. These listings, rankings and sub-groupings will be final for that school year and no appeals through the Grievance Procedure or otherwise will be considered. If schools have the same percentage of students eligible for a free or reduced lunch, the percentage will be calculated further into decimals to determine in which stratification/sub-group the school will be listed.
The Department of Research & Evaluation will list the percent of learning gains made by the lowest twenty-fifth percent of students in reading as determined by the FCAT, for each eligible school. The one school in each subgroup with the highest percent of learning gains achieved by the lowest twenty-fifth percent of its students in reading will be considered one of the highest performing schools for Performance Pay purposes for that school year. If two or more schools within a sub-group tie as schools having the highest percent of learning gains
made by the lowest twenty-fifth percent of their students in reading, the school with the greater percentage of ESE, LEP, non-white, free or reduced lunch, and retained students in that school will be used as the tie-breaker. The Department of Research & Evaluation will add the percentages of each above listed category of students for each tied school and the school having the higher composite total percentage number will be considered to be the school in that sub-group to be the highest performing school for the purposes of Performance Pay for that school year. The Department of Research & Evaluation will make these determinations as provided herein and these determinations will be final. No appeals through the Grievance Procedure or otherwise will be considered.
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c.
Eligibility of Schools and data:
a.	Except as provided in c. below, only schools that receive learning gain scores for the lowest twenty-fifth percent
of students in reading on the School Accountability Report are eligible to participate in the District's Performance Pay Plan.
Charter Schools and their employees are not eligible to participate in the District's Performance Pay Plan. Schools which do not have FCAT scores (e.g., K-2 schools) that send all their students to a single receiving school will be assigned the FCAT results found in the School Accountability Report that were earned by the receiving school.
All data derived to determine learning gains and demographics of a school will be taken from the GOLD REPORT and other official State Department of Education Reports as determined by the Department of Research & Evaluation.
b. c.
d.

3.
Each full-time employee assigned to one of the identified highest performing schools as set forth above who is in an active working status at least during the period between and including the October and the February FTE counts during the school year the specific learning gains are produced will be eligible to receive a 5% performance pay supplement, provided he/she meets the below listed requirements. However, if the employee is administratively removed (not a voluntary move) from the school during the school year or is on an approved leave of absence and such removal or leave does not allow him/her to remain on an active working status at that school at least during the period between and including the October and the February FTE counts, the employee will remain eligible if he/she was assigned on an active working status to that school for at least ninety (90) student attendance days before the administration of the FCAT that school year, and provided he/she meets the below listed requirements:
a.
Is an Expert-In-The-Field, or holds a valid Florida Professional Educator Certificate, a Florida Educator's Certificate, a Statement of Status of Eligibility, a District-issued Vocational Certificate or, if applicable, a valid Professional License issued by the State of Florida that qualifies the employee to be a member of the District's instructional staff.
b.
Has demonstrated satisfactory performance during the school year the FCAT is administered, as determined by the Competency Assessment (CA) Guide or the Accomplished Educators Assessment (AEA) Guide.
c.
Is a full-time employee who is simultaneously assigned to more than one school during any school year provided the employee is assigned to at least one school that is among the highest performing schools as set forth above. The employee is eligible provided he/she also meets all other eligibility requirements set forth in this Plan.
d.
No more than one 5% performance pay supplement will be awarded to an eligible employee for any given school year.
4. This Plan will terminate should Florida Statutes, Section 1012.22(1)(c)(4) be repealed; or if such Section of law is amended making any part of this Plan invalid or incomplete, then provisions of "Article I, Section E - Savings" of the parties' Collective Bargaining Agreement will be implemented in order to bring this Plan into compliance with such amended Section of law.
FOR THE PALM BEACH COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT:
FOR THE PALM BEACH COUNTY CLASSROOM TEACHERS ASSOCIATION:
James Hayes, Jr. Chief Negotiator
Helene Samango Executive Director
Joseph M. Moore Chief Operating Officer
Theo Harris President
Arthur C. Johnson, Ph.D Superintendent
Thomas Lynch School Board Chair