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Featured comment Close comment Music Teachers, Phy. Ed and other Specialists I am an orchestra teacher and have I many friends who are regular teachers and who are also music teachers,..phy. ed. teachers...I am very read more disappointed in the comment I read earlier that stated that music ...
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news.yahoo.com - 3/10/2009
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Politico - After weeks of pleasing Democrats by
overturning policies set by the previous administration, President Barack
Obama Tuesday will for the first time confront a powerful constituency in his own party: teachers’ unions.
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Obama faces teachers' unions on pay
(Politico)
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‘Merit pay’ for 99% of teachers
Joanne Jacobs —
Is it ‘merit pay’ if nearly all teachers get it? Minnesota’s Q Comp was supposed to give bonuses to the most effective teachers. But . . . In 22 school districts whose Q Comp practices were examined by the Star Tribune, more than 99 percent of teachers in the program received merit raises during the most recent school year. Only 27 of the roughly 4,200 teachers eligible did not get a pay raise. Raises are based primarily on “whether teachers successfully complete evaluations and training, rather than on student performance,” reports the Star Trib. There’s no sign that Q Comp ...
Everyone's meritorious
SCSUScholars —
... As the StarTribune pointed out last month, it ain't merit pay if 99% of teachers get it. And it ain't merit pay if you're using the money to pay for a staff development day for everyone. H/T for the STrib link to ...
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