Six Years Later, Principals Still Don't Have Performance Contracts

Sara Lin

Three former Hawaii governors are proposing educational reforms that would, among other things, "give principals the power and resources to be true leaders of each school, and then hold them accountable."

But attempts since 2004 to institute an accountability system for principals have failed, raising the question of how this time would be any different. The Reinventing Education Act of 2004 — also known as Act 51 — stipulated that the department of education and its bargaining agents "shall propose salary schedules and other terms and conditions of employment of principals and vice principals based upon a twelve-month term of services." The goal was to build contracts containing incentives that would reward principals for good performance and strip poor performers of the virtually-unconditional job security they currently enjoy.

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