"One of the ways an employer shows respect to an employee is to give them timely reviews," said candidate Melody Brazo.
"I like the system," agreed incumbent Susana Segat. "I think it's a positive thing, and I think it's important for teachers to see it that way."
Incumbent Alice Turkel linked the student achievement gap to budget concerns, suggesting that resources be reallocated into the city's lower-achieving schools.
"At some of our most expensive schools, we're not seeing results," she said. "We're just pouring money into the problem."
Turkel pointed to a program already in place at one Cambridge elementary school whose students had particularly low reading ability scores on standardized tests.
In the program, "reading recovery teams" were hired to give extra help to children in grades three and four.
"I'm not a big test score person, but what we're seeing now is that we have no kids in the third grade...and no kids in the fourth grade...failing," she said.
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