Sentences with phrase «introduced teacher merit»

Some Brazilian states and municipalities, including Rio de Janeiro, have introduced teacher merit - pay schemes based on school IDEB scores.

Not exact matches

During his eight years in Tallahassee, the governor established a far - reaching accountability system, including limits on social promotion in elementary school; introduced a plethora of school choice initiatives (vouchers for the disabled, vouchers for those in failing schools, tax - credit funded scholarships for the needy, virtual education, and a growing number of charter schools); asked school districts to pay teachers according to merit; promoted a «Just Read» initiative; ensured parental choice among providers of preschool services; and created a highly regarded system for tracking student achievement.

Now, with Republican governors like Scott Walker in Wisconsin and John Kasich in Ohio publicly taking on collective bargaining for public school teachers, replacing strict salary schedules with merit pay, and introducing value - added measures into decisions about salaries and tenure, events have caught up to his message.

Teacher educators and veteran social studies teachers should, therefore, not be surprised if young teachers do not immediately take to Twitter or other social media for PD, but there is likely still merit in introducing young educators to professional social media use (e.g., Krutka, 2014).

The elected officials have been attacking the union's sacred cows with a ferocity that hasn't been seen before — eliminating seniority and tenure, introducing merit pay, defining teacher accountability, more school choice programs, etc. are all on the agenda.

Remember when Charlie Crist sold out the future of Florida's school children by vetoing a school reform bill that would have introduced merit pay and tweaked tenure in order to curry favor with that state's powerful teachers union in the hopes that they would aid him in his race for the Senate?

In the District, talks dragged on for more than two years before the Washington Teachers» Union reached a deal with then - Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee in 2010 on a contract that introduced merit pay and gave administrators more firing power.

Kyrillos, managing partner in a real estate firm, also introduced a bill to end tenure for teachers and set up a merit pay system.

Scott that year also signed into law legislation ending teacher tenure and introducing a merit - pay plan based in large part how students perform on standardized tests.