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recommendations that the board review current salary steps where necessary, establish salary steps and an index pay scale for all categories of school employment and begin to consider a salary proposal for next year.
With little argument, the board adopted an employee evaluation system at Tuesday’s meeting proposed by superintendent Robert Estabrook. In response to complaints from Nelson Lane that a lot of the evaluation procedures, particularly those for teachers and other certified staff, were "very damn soft,” Estabrook maintained that the nature of work performed by professional employees “lends itself less to a precise statement of exactly what they do.” As an example, he compared starting a math class with starting up a school bus. “I don't think the documents (evaluation forms) are strong or weak. It depends on how they’re used,” the superintendent said, describing the evaluation system as ‘‘a signal that we expect quality work.”
The forms for the evaluation system include a list of competencies for each category of employment,
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