65G performance bonus for Ackerman
Superintendent Arlene Ackerman. is $65,000 richer. The city schools chief received the performance bonus after having met all 21 benchmarks measured in an evaluation by the School Reform Commission, SRC Chairman Robert Archie said in a statement yesterday.
Superintendent Arlene Ackerman. is $65,000 richer.
The city schools chief received the performance bonus after having met all 21 benchmarks measured in an evaluation by the School Reform Commission, SRC Chairman Robert Archie said in a statement yesterday.
Details of Ackerman's performance criteria and evaluation are kept confidential but are tied to her major reform plan, Imagine 2014, said district spokeswoman Evelyn Sample-Oates.
Ackerman was entitled to a bonus of up to 20 percent of her annual salary, according to her five-year employment contract.
Ackerman took the helm of the nation's eighth-largest school district in 2008 and makes $325,000 a year, an amount comparable to what her predecessor Paul Vallas made, and in line with what superintendents of other large urban districts nationwide are paid, Sample-Oates said.
Each fall for the duration of her contract, Ackerman and the commission will determine by what benchmarks she is to be measured.
Among her accomplishments under her reform plan, Ackerman has reduced class sizes in certain grades, added teachers and counselors and has embarked on a path aimed at turning around the district's struggling schools.
Her contract also allows for a retention bonus of $100,000 if she stays through to June 2011.
In his statement, Archie said that the "commission is pleased with her performance and hopes that she will stay "another 10 years."
