You don't want the RTTT funding- give it up. It isn't for teachers salaries. RTTT is ONLY for school reform in failing school districts and it means those schools would have to embrace the following:
Merit pay tied to student performance
Revisiting tenure
the implentation of national standardized testing
Increase of charter schools to replace failing schools that don't improve as a result of the above measures.
You want that, teachers?
You are chasing rabbits, here. Losing RTTT was a bullet dodged by the NJEA.

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