Common use of Third Party Evaluation Clause in Contracts

Third Party Evaluation. According to District procurement procedures, the District and Association shall jointly charge an independent, third party evaluation of the Professional Compensation System for Teachers. This evaluation shall examine the implementation of the system and its effectiveness at achieving District and Association mission and goals and in keeping with the terms and conditions of this Agreement, the ballot language approved by the voters in the mill levy override election, and the goals and elements of the Professional Compensation System for Teachers. This evaluation shall offer findings and recommendations for improvement of the system. This evaluation shall be presented to the Board of Education, the DCTA Board of Directors and the Trust Board in November 2009, prior to when the District and Association commence negotiations on the Professional Compensation System for Teachers, thus ensuring that those negotiations shall be supported by data. 4.3.2.1 The Transition Team of the Professional Compensation System for Teachers shall recommend the evaluator to the District and Association no later than April of 2008. 4.3.2.2 The Department of Human Resources shall develop measures of performance of the elements of the Professional Compensation System for Teachers to be used in their evaluation. The Transition Team will review these measures and, once approved, recommend them to the evaluator. 4.3.2.3 The District and the Association shall collaborate to develop external funding for the independent, third party evaluation of the Professional Compensation System for Teachers. If external funding is not developed then alternative methods, including the use of mill levy revenue, may be used to obtain the third party evaluation.