When teacher salary schedules first came into vogue in the early 20th century, they were designed to equalize wages among public school teachers across race, ethnicity, and gender.
When teacher salary schedules first came to be about 100 years ago, they were designed to eliminate discrimination due to race, ethnicity and gender.
Not exact matches
Relatively few leaders have pushed to the envelope's edge
when exploring flexibility within the
salary schedule or have emulated the aggressive tenor of Joel Klein's
Teacher Performance Unit in seeking to evaluate and remove
teachers within the constraints imposed by state law.
Introduced in Denver and Des Moines in 1921, the single
salary schedule was meant to resolve the inequities of an era
when women, minorities, and elementary school
teachers were paid less than their counterparts.
An evidence - based
salary schedule would directly reward
teachers when they demonstrate evidence of greater effectiveness.
The measures also could be the foundation of new
teacher salary schedules that would provide the largest pay hikes
when a
teacher's effectiveness level improved.
In an era
when many school systems had no regular
salary schedules or implemented
schedules paying more to men than women and more to high school
teachers than to grade school
teachers, TCTA advocated for a single
salary schedule.
As of 2012, the vast majority of districts still had a
salary schedule in place, and only 11 percent of districts used pay incentives to reward
teachers for excellent performance, though the practice is increasing.78 And as states develop more effective ways to measure
teacher quality, districts should be better able to incorporate performance data
when making compensation decisions.
However,
when it became clear at the end of the process that key members of the group would insist the final report contain recommendations eliminating the minimum
salary schedule and tying
teacher evaluations to student test scores, TCTA withdrew from the commission.