Hawaii’s public school teachers are voting on a new six-year contract.
This is one of many sites statewide where teachers are casting their vote to weigh in on the new deal — a settlement that would include for the first time raises based on performance evaluations beginning 2012.
More than 13,000 teachers in the HSTA union are getting to vote tonight on the 6 year contract.
The union calls the settlement worthy of their support, but some teachers say the deal doesn’t explain how teachers will be evaluated and that’s raising a red flag.
The deal also includes a 50-50 medical split, an increase in personal leave days from 5 to 6 for each school year, and teachers’ salaries would be restored to the 2009 levels before furloughs in June 2013.
Votings ends at 5: 30 p.m.
Results are expected before 9 p.m.
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