- December 15, 2025
About eight seconds after being brought to the table, the Flagler County School Board approved a revised agreement and memorandum of understanding with the Flagler County Educators Association, closing the groups’ dispute over merit-pay standards.
The agreement stated that no instructor can receive less than a “Needs Improvement” or “Developing” review in Race to the Top’s inaugural field-study year unless the teacher has failed to complete a majority of goals outlined in a teacher success plan — a process lasting no fewer than 45 workdays.
The agreement also dictated that an appeals process be developed which, once agreed upon, bargaining teams will reconvene to ratify.
“I’m just glad this is done,” School Board member Colleen Conklin said, after the item’s passing. “It’s my hope that working together, there’s not much that we can’t do and accomplish and achieve for the kids.”
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