Sentences with phrase «implementing teacher merit»

The U. S. Department of Education asked states to include proposals for implementing teacher merit pay — pay based on classroom performance — in their 2010 applications for Race to the Top (RttT) monies, and many applicants promised action on this front.

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In 2011, Carvalho helped implement a merit pay system — considered anathema to most teachers union officials, including Weingarten — that tied raises to teachers» evaluation scores and provided bonuses for highly effective teachers.

The Massey plan would also expand the number of competitive, specialized high schools from nine to 13, increase the number of vocational / trade schools, and implement merit pay for teachers, which the Bloomberg administration tried on a limited basis.

For alongside the reforms he implemented, Klein provides a second list just as long of the reforms that just died: less binding teacher tenure, serious increases in teaching time, a streamlined disciplinary process for teachers, and a salary scale that would have allowed for substantial merit pay.

Though, unlike U.S. education reformers, Finnish authorities haven't outsourced school management to for - profit or non-profit organizations, implemented merit pay, or ranked teachers and schools according to test results, they've made excellent use of business strategies.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — A new report finds that merit pay plans for teachers have been implemented in no more than 500 school districts out of some 14,000 districts nationwide, only 3.5 percent of the total.

In addition to criticism from school - based teachers, a merit pay compensation system can be very hard to implement in schools.

Rhee implemented a teacher evaluation and merit pay system known as IMPACT before she resigned from chancellor of Washington, D.C. public schools a year ago.

In an effort to get more highly effective teachers in front of more students, the district implemented a merit pay plan «to recognize the most outstanding teachers.»

Under Rhee's leadership, DCPS implemented a new teacher contract that permitted merit pay and reduced the roles played by teacher tenure and seniority.

Readers scanning the site today should take a few minutes with the Orange County Register story linked under the «In Today's Headlines» section, which reports on some hopeful polling data showing that a growing number of teachers are in favor of abolishing their unions and implementing merit pay.

The Chilean government implemented merit pay to incentivize teachers to work in schools that needed improvement and encourage teachers to work in schools that served low income families.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Aug. 26 / PRNewswire - USNewswire / — Whether the issue is expanding charter schools or implementing merit pay for teachers, Americans appear to agree with President Barack Obama's plans for education reform, according to the 2009 annual PDK / Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools...

The study's findings, however, might offer some insights for Indiana school districts, which are beginning to figure out how to implement state - mandated teacher evaluation policies and merit pay plans.