<p>Central Falls High School teachers were asked by the school board to meet these six conditions in order to keep their jobs:</p>
<p>Increase length of school day by 25 minutes to provide more instructional time for students.</p>
<p>Formalize tutoring schedule so struggling students have extra help for one hour before and after school.</p>
<p>Agree to eat lunch with students one day a week to build stronger relationships.</p>
<p>Attend two weeks of professional development in the summer at a rate of $30 an hour.</p>
<p>Stay after school for 90 minutes one day each week to work with fellow teachers analyzing student work and test data and discussing ways to improve teaching at a rate of $30 an hour if Gallo can find grant financing.</p>
<p>Accept more rigorous evaluations by a third-party starting March 1.</p>
<p>The teacher’s union refused all of the conditions.</p>
<p>The Central Falls School Board must follow these federal mandates:</p>
<p>Education Secretary Arnie Duncan is requiring states, for the first time, to identify their lowest 5 percent of schools those that have chronically poor performance and low graduation rates and fix them using one of four methods: school closure; takeover by a charter or school-management organization; transformation which requires a longer school day, among other changes; and turnaround which requires the entire teaching staff be fired and no more than 50 percent rehired in the fall.</p>