This summer she offered a new teacher contract proposal with two options.

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Last month, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback unveiled a teacher-evaluation overhaul that would give parents access to teacher evaluations, but the proposal has faced resistance in the state legislature.

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His merit-pay proposal would expand the uses of a teacher-evaluation system still being hammered out for the city's teachers.

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