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Teachers have a new system in Pittsburgh Public Schools and maybe a chance at even more money thanks to the Gates Foundation – a 40 million dollar grant. What do you think?

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That is the question facing administrators in the Pittsburgh Public Schools and the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers as they go about implementing a performance pay plan that is part of the $40 million grant that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded the school district last year.

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Dr. Carol Utay and Pam Cook of ABC Advocacy are presenting this week at the National Conference of The Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates this week in St. Louis. They are presenting Progress Monitoring: What Parents and Advocates Should Know. Progress monitoring ensures that a student’s underachievement is not due to lack of appropriate instruction. Using free research-based online Curriculum Based Measurement (CBM) probes in reading and/or math, parents or private tutors can administer assessments to verify student progress or lack of progress. This data can provide the basis for compensatory education when students fail to make progress.

The event will be repeated April 2nd at the COA meeting held in Wexford at 9:30AM at Total Learning Centers.