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• On the article How Does Westford Stack Up In Per-Pupil Spending?

  Ghost

  6:47 am on Wednesday, February 20, 2013

  #147 in teacher salaries yet WA constantly is rated by Boston Magazine in the top 20, is a TELLING stat when teachers accuse the town of playing cheap (this goes back to before last year, even in good financial times Westford always said 'wish we could do better' even 15 years ago as new schools were being built left and right).
  I agree per pupil only tells part of story (no, automatically spending more doesn't guarantee success) BUT the hard reality that we expect teachers to deliver like DCL teacher peers yet pay them with Ayer, Dracut, and well behind even Billerica is just pathetic and insulting.
  Next time Westford's schools are 'compared' by the School Committee or Superintendant I hope it's to the ones we pay our staff like and not the Lexingtons, Actons, Grotons which we really aren't equivalent to.
  The reality that our staff works amount the most hours , about a week extra on average, only adds.
  Thank you Andrew for getting this together! Westford teachers know they got railroaded last year and likely will be work to rule in 0-60 if a fair market value contract isn't presented at the start of negotiations next year!

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