Sentences with phrase «merit pay plans»

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.

Another hot topic: implementing merit pay plans.

Politicians in cash - starved states all over the country have promised to start merit pay plans.

According to the study, even in those districts that have adopted an aspect of merit pay as part of their teacher compensation practices, these merit pay plans are not as rigorous as they tend to be in the private sector.

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.

The authors found that even in districts that were identified by NCPI as having merit pay plans, «most were so weak that they represented no meaningful change from traditional compensation systems,» which typically are based on the number of years on the job and academic credentials.

The political skirmishes in Florida, including court fights over vouchers and charter schools, and ongoing struggles over a parade of different merit pay plans for teachers, give credence to the standard portrayal.

The Obama Administration's Race to the Top (RttT) initiative won plaudits for encouraging states and school districts to expand charter school operations and develop merit pay plans.

Merit pay plans are expensive, especially if the performance awards are added to the salary schedule, so there are questions about whether the extra funds will continue to be available during the next economic downturn.

In general, merit pay plans are more likely to be symbolic than substantive and more likely to be promised than delivered.

More than 1,000 delegates voted to adopt a resolution which noted that «studies conducted by prominent researchers and renowned education experts show that individual merit pay plans have not helped to significantly improve student achievement in any of the United States school districts where they have been implemented.»

Delegates unanimously rejected Mayor Michael Bloomberg's call for an individual merit pay plan for New York City public schools.

The members of the Delegate Assembly, the highest policy - making body of the UFT, on Feb. 15 roundly rejected Mayor Bloomberg's call for an individual merit pay plan for New York City public schools.

Ed Next recently published an evaluation of the impact of a merit pay plan in New York City that awarded bonuses to all teachers in schools that met performance targets.

Cincinnati's merit pay plan, proposed in 2002, was overwhelmingly voted down by teachers (1892 to 73), even though the program did not base bonuses on student test scores, but rather on a multifaceted evaluation system that included classroom observations by professional peers and administrators and portfolios of lesson plans and student work.

«What we have seen others do is use this more as a merit pay plan, but we want to remove the barriers and open the door for anyone to pursue this possibility,» she said.

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.»

Florida's New Teacher Merit Pay Plan lacks both Merit and Pay «It's going to allow our teachers that believe in measurement to get paid better because they're going to be the most effective ones, and the real winner here is the kids,» said Governor Rick Scott as he signed SB736 / Teacher Merit Pay bill.

Kidd, who is on the task force, pushed back on a merit pay plan already enacted last year by lawmakers — the teacher contract system.

Not exact matches

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.

The mayor and the speaker, Melissa Mark - Viverito, will be trying to stiffen lawmakers» resolve in a now - explicit argument with Governor Andrew Cuomo over the merits of de Blasio's plan to raise the income tax rate on the wealthiest city residents to pay for universal pre-kindergarten and after - school programs for middle schools.

• Providing these students with financial - planning advice early on, including information on private need - and merit - based scholarships, private loans, and school loans, as well as creating paid opportunities like paid research and internships.

That city's merit - pay plan proposed in 2002 was overwhelmingly voted down by teachers (1892 to 73), even though it did not base bonuses on student test scores.

A strong, well - designed merit - pay plan requires more than offering a bonus to high - performing teachers while paying the remainder according to the standard schedule.

The first decade of the 21st century has also had a dominant strategy: incentive - based reforms, such as increasing competition among charter and district schools, merit - pay plans to improve teacher quality, and school - level accountability based on testing.

Reacting to proposals discussed so far by the state's recently established merit - pay commission, the Florida Education Association / United has developed a plan of its own that it expects to present to the commission at its Oct. 27 meeting.

In Florida, for example, teachers widely criticized a merit - pay plan approved by the state legislature in 2006 as unfair and divisive because it allowed for only one - quarter of all teachers to receive bonuses.

His tenure follows the controversial leadership of former superintendent Cami Anderson, who led a series of unpopular initiatives in quick succession, including a new citywide enrollment plan and lottery that allowed parents to choose any traditional or charter school in the city, closures of underenrolled or poorly performing schools, mass firings of teachers and principals, and a new merit - pay program for teachers.

After being asked by lawmakers to clarify plans for a pilot program that would provide teachers with merit pay, the North Carolina Board of Education has submitted its proposal for the program to the legislature substantially unchanged.

Despite the history of merit pay, these plans continue to be reborn, including in various waves in the United States over the past century.

Governor Crist has vetoed the merit pay bill as part of his plan to run as a third party candidate for the open Senate seat in Florida.

In the study, to be published in the Spring 2011 issue of Education Next and available at www.educationnext.org, authors Stuart Buck and Jay P. Greene examined the key characteristics of performance pay plans currently in place in school districts, in light of increased attention given to merit pay in national debate and in the Obama Administration's Race to the Top (RttT) competitive grant program.

However, far fewer — 16.4 percent — of the 1,215 superintendents responding to the association's survey said they have been involved in the implementation of a merit - pay plan.

For example, Philadelphia was poised to put a pilot merit pay initiative in place in 2000, but the pilot was dropped late in the planning process.

A key ingredient of a true merit - pay plan is an objective assessment of a teacher's impact on student learning.

A Florida judge last week upheld the constitutionality of the state's Master Teacher Program in a suit against the merit - pay plan brought by the Florida Teaching Profession organization.

Some of the most heated comments focused on the department's effort to improve teacher effectiveness, such as emphasis on merit - pay plans for educators and alternative routes to teacher certification.

Should any of these states and districts also tie serious consequences to such output (e.g., merit pay, performance plans, teacher termination, denial of tenure), or rather tie serious consequences to measures of growth derived via any varieties of the «multiple assessment» that can be pulled from increasingly prevalent multiple assessment «menus,» states and districts are also setting themselves for lawsuits... no joke!

Although research can shed light on how policies play out and how context matters, studies of particular merit - pay or school - choice plans are unlikely to answer whether such policies «work» — largely because the particulars of each plan will prove crucial.

A new contract with the teachers» union in 2012 included data - infused teacher evaluations, stricter oversight of lesson plans and attendance, and merit pay, «including incentives for high performers to stay in low - performing schools.»

Waconda does not link student test - scores to teacher evaluations or offer merit pay to its teachers; it has no plans to distribute iPads to students.

Much in the same way that sick banks are established in large group health insurance plans, teachers might find a way to establish group plans that seek to redistribute merit - based pay that recognizes the entirety of the profession rather than the narrow measures of the few.

One national model for Tennessee's teacher pay - flex plan is Newark, N.J.. Under an agreement finalized in November of last year, teachers can earn up to $ 12,500 in merit pay — more than a 20 percent increase over the AVERAGE Newark teacher salary of $ 60,000.

This is certainly something to (still) keep in consideration, especially when teachers are rewarded (e.g., via merit pay) or penalized (e.g., vie performance improvement plans or plans for dismissal).

He has already outlined plans to do away with teacher tenure and set up a performance - based review system for teachers, create a merit pay system and allow private, for - profit companies to take over failing schools.

Today is the last day of Center for Inspired Teaching's two - week Institute, and as the rest of the country talks about the merits and shortcomings of the Obama administration's education plan — particularly its belief that external systems of accountability and extrinsic motivators like performance pay are an essential ingredient in reforming public education — I'm watching the same debate unfold here, on the ground, as a small group of DC teachers prepares for the coming school year.

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.

One of the sticking points in implementing merit - pay plans is defining «merit,» and deciding when and to whom we should provide bonuses.

A key criticism of merit - pay plans is that teachers view these plans as secret formulas and have no idea why merit bonuses were or were not awarded.

Currently, the federal government supports teacher merit pay through the Teacher Incentive Fund, a grant program that pays for districts to develop performance - pay plans.