SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2010
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D.C. schools unveil bonus plan 2 forms of extra
compensation available to teachers
by Michael Birnbaum
D.C. schools officials detailed for the first time Friday how teachers can qualify for the per- formance-based pay increases that could vault them into the ranks of the country’s best-paid public school educators. The increases, which come in
two forms, are targeted toward teachers who receive the best evaluations. The programs are voluntary, and teachers who par- ticipate give up certain job pro- tections. Those ranked highly effective
may be eligible for as much as $25,000 in one-time bonuses, with the amount determined by student performance and other factors. Those ranked highly ef- fective for two years in a row could see their base pay rise by as much as $26,000 a year. Sixteen percent of the city’s teachers were ranked highly ef- fective last school year. The increases come on top of a
contract signed in June that raised average teacher pay to
“Our teachers . . . are the most powerful and important
resource.’’ — Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee
$81,000 a year. Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee announced earlier this year that she had lined up $31.5 million in private foundation support to help pay for the performance bo- nuses and base pay increases. Of- ficials said Friday that they ex- pected to spend $6 million on the bonuses in the first year. By fiscal year 2013, D.C.’s government will shoulder the burden.
“Our teachers, individually and
collectively, are the most power- ful and important resource in this school district,” Rhee said in a statement. The one-time bonuses will de- pend on a number of factors. How can teachers receive the maximum amount? First, they must qualify by
ranking in the top tier in the school system’s new evaluation process. Qualifying teachers who work at a school where 60 per-
ROBERT McCARTNEY
If the Redskins get their act together (and win!), it will do wonders for regional harmony
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at FedEx Field in Prince George’s County against the archrival Dallas Cowboys. (If you’re a loyal reader
expecting one more column to help you decide how to vote in the District or Prince George’s primary election Tuesday, then too bad. A home opener against Dallas trumps almost any competing topic. Besides, it’s now up to you, the voters, to show us pundits what you think.) It might seem whimsical or
even trivial to place such importance on the fortunes of the local professional football team. But it is not inaccurate. For a variety of reasons, ours is a fragmented region.
Enthusiasm for the Redskins is one of the few things that a large chunk of our population has in common. The team’s appeal extends across geographic boundaries (the Potomac), and transcends economic and racial divisions. A Redskins crowd is much more diverse than the overwhelmingly white ones typically seen at Nationals Park for baseball games. “The Redskins are still the
king. . . . It’s in the lifeblood of Washingtonians,” said Jimmy Lynn, a visiting professor in the sports management program at Georgetown University and owner of a sports strategic advisory firm. “You know how D.C. is after a win rather than a loss. People come to the office with a smile. There aren’t as many arguments. They’re not honking their horn so much.”
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A successful season is especially important because it’s been so long since the Redskins had a really good one. We longtime residents need some renewed Redskins glory to convince more-recent arrivals that it’s not delusional to get excited about the team. Consider this: Of the
5.2million people now living in the Washington region, more than 3million were not here the last time the Redskins won the Super Bowl, in January 1992. That figure comes courtesy of Lisa Sturtevant, a research assistant professor at George Mason University’s Center for Regional Analysis, who crunched some data at my request. The number’s so large partly because our region has a bigger share of newcomers than most. Because of relatively abundant job opportunities, which attract people from all over the country, the fraction of our residents who’ve lived here less than 12 months is larger that that of Chicago, Philadelphia or Boston — though smaller than that of Seattle. “We’re not the most transient region, but we’re up there,” said Sturtevant, an economist who used to be Arlington County’s demographer. That means millions of people
have lived in the area long enough to learn our ways but have never enjoyed the sustained collective thrill of a Redskins championship. They know to leave an extra hour if forced to drive west on I-66 on a Friday afternoon.
They know Rock Creek
Parkway is one-way at rush hour. They know about Ben’s Chili Bowl, Gifford’s ice cream, Ray’s the Steaks. But they’ve never seen the
excitement when the Skins win it all. They have no idea what it was like during that heavenly decade starting in 1982 when the team won three Super Bowls and was a constant source of regional pride and satisfaction. There’s another important reason the region needs to see the Redskins win. This whole thing about hating owner Dan Snyder is getting tiresome. It’d be great to move beyond it, and for that, we need some winning seasons. This year, Snyder has given us some grounds to be optimistic. Moving quickly at the end of last season, he cleaned house at the top and brought in a Super Bowl-winning coach, Mike Shanahan, and an experienced general manager, Bruce Allen. He was responding to fan disgruntlement so intense that the team was booed at home at times last season even when it was winning. “The moves the Redskins made in the offseason were extremely popular with the fan base,” Lynn said. But he added that it all could sour if the team performs poorly: “If there are a lot of penalties and a lot of mistakes, then I think the fans will turn on them.” Unify us, Redskins. Give us
hope. You can start by crushing the Cowboys.
mccartneyr@washpost.com
ANIMAL WATCH
Pet python is too close for comfort
G ST. SW, 300 block, Aug. 27. Responding to a call, two Hu- mane Society officers met with a man who had recently bought an eight-foot-long albino Burmese python. He said that after he had
fed the snake, it bit him and be- gan constricting around his arm. The man surrendered the snake to the society, which was plan- ning to have it transferred to a reptile rescue organization. Among cases handled by the Washington Humane Society.
cent or more of students are eli- gible for free- and reduced-price meals earn an extra $10,000 right off the bat. (Teachers at lower- poverty schools receive half the money. But four-fifths of D.C.’s schools meet the high-poverty guideline.) Teaching a hard-to- staff subject is another path to higher pay: secondary math, sec- ondary science, special educa- tion, bilingual and ESL teachers garner $5,000. Then there’s teaching in grades four through eight: Students in those grades take the standardized exams in math and reading, and improved scores can earn teachers as much as $10,000 more.
School systems across the
country have adopted perform- ance-based bonuses in the past few years, but Washington’s bo- nuses are among the biggest. Teachers in Prince George’s County can receive as much as $10,000 in annual performance bonuses. Education Secretary Arne Duncan has encouraged school systems and states to adopt performance pay, and he made them a factor in decisions for Race to the Top, a $4 billion competitive grant program. Both D.C. and Maryland won
grants. The District’s share was $75 million.
birnbaumm@washpost.com
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JOHN KELLY’S WASHINGTON
‘Houseboat’ column unleashes a flood of reader memories
witnessed the filming of “Houseboat,” the 1958 Cary Grant-Sophia Loren movie he wrote about last week. One of them, Arthur Shugars, was even in the movie. Arthur is the chauffeur who was called “Sugar” by the child actors he drove around during their two weeks in Washington. Now 98 and living in a retirement home in Charles Town, W.Va., he’s as sharp today as he was then. “I’m in the opening scene, wiping the fender [of a limousine] when Cary Grant drives up with the Jeep,” Arthur said. “I had to give him a dirty look: Why’d he have to come up to this mansion in a Jeep?” Arthur was behind the wheel of a limo in another scene, when Grant cuts in front of him at the since-demolished Commodore Hotel.
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“I took up the whole screen,” he said. “But in the video, I’m not in it. They cut me out of the video.”
Ah, showbiz. Amanda Lee of Alexandria said those early scenes at the mansion of Grant’s in-laws were filmed on the Virginia side of the Potomac near Dogue Creek inlet, where she grew up. The house, on Mount Vernon Circle, is still there. “The Laundromat and produce stands shown in the film portray real places along old U.S. Route 1 in the Engleside area,” Amanda wrote. “The family-run produce stand still stands.” Where was the titular houseboat moored? Jim Burch is
nswer Man was delighted to hear from many Washingtonians who
the developer who pulled together the property that became National Harbor, a former gravel quarry called Smoot Bay. Wrote Jim: “Back in 1980-1984, I constantly heard stories from older residents about the movie ‘Houseboat’ being shot not at Piscataway Creek, but at Smoot Bay, adjacent to what is now the Beltway.” Perhaps some scenes were
filmed there, but most people recollect the Piscataway near Fort Washington, five miles downriver. When Gina Croci was 9, she had a friend whose father worked for the park service there. One day he let a small group watch the filming. “I was so excited just thinking
that I would have the opportunity to meet or see Sophia Loren that I begged my Mom to get me an autograph book,” Gina wrote. “Wow, a little Italian meeting a famous Italian!”
But when Loren finally walked past and Gina asked for her autograph, “She took her hand, did that ‘Italian back hand’ swish and said something like ‘Move away.’ I was heartbroken.” The day wasn’t a total bust. “As we were walking up the hill I felt a tap on my shoulder and turned around, and it was Cary Grant. He said ‘Hey, you didn’t ask for my autograph. Don’t you like me?’ And he picked me up and gave me a hug. He wrote two pages in that autograph book. “I knew from that moment on
that I was going to grow up and marry Cary Grant. I never missed one of his movies and from that time on, never watched any of Sophia Loren’s.”
LOCAL DIGEST THE DISTRICT
Wone wrongful death suit trial postponed The judge overseeing the
$20 million wrongful death law- suit filed by the family of Robert Wone against three roommates has moved the trial date to Sept. 12, 2011, from June 13, 2011. D.C. Superior Court Judge Brook Hedge noted the change was because of the “potential
length of trial,” which Hedge said could present “probable issues” with jurors and their preplanned vacations. It remains unclear, however,
whether Hedge will oversee the trial. Hedge has notified court of- ficials of her planned retirement in December and it was not known whether she plans to leave the bench or seek senior status af- ter her retirement. Wone, a Washington lawyer, was staying at the home of his
three friends at 1509 Swann St. NW, when he was fatally stabbed the night of Aug. 2, 2006. No one has been arrested in the case. The roommates, Joseph R.
Price, Dylan M. Ward and Victor J. Zaborsky, said an unknown in- truder killed Wone. Prosecutors charged the three men with con- spiracy and lying to police about the case, but a Superior Court judge acquitted the men after a five-week trial.
— Keith L. Alexander
It’s incontrovertible where one scene was filmed: the Watergate steps during the concert scene. Mollie McCurdy of
Waynesboro, Va., was a 19-year-old college student living in the District with her aunt. “Every Friday night, she and I attended Watergate concerts,” Mollie wrote. “That particular night I well remember practically falling out of my seat swooning over Cary Grant!” Les LeVine from Chevy Chase was there, too. One of his memories: “There was an announcement. The narrator said, ‘There is going to be filming. If you are here with somebody you are not supposed to be with, you are hereby warned.’ ” As for the houseboat itself,
Rockville’s Bill Clark can fill in some information. In 1957, Bill was fresh out of American University and selling ads in the Yellow Pages. One client owned a marine pile-driving company. After production on the movie
finished, the filmmakers needed to dispose of the houseboat — a shell really, used only for exterior shots. They gave it to the man who owned the pile-driving company. “Mr. Little, I think his name was,” said Bill. “He towed it back to Maine Avenue, next to his business there, near the Gangplank restaurant. He was going to open it up as a tackle shop. What happened after that, I don’t know.”
Do you have memories of other movies that were filmed in Washington? Share them with Answer Man:
answerman@washpost.com.
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