Sentences with phrase «percent rewarded excellence»

According to analyses of data from the «Schools and Staffing Survey» administered by the U.S. Department of Education, 13.6 percent of districts rewarded excellence in teaching in 1999 - 2000, and 14 percent rewarded excellence in teaching in 2003 - 04.

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Michael Podgursky, professor of economics at the University of Missouri, looked at data from the 1999 — 2000 Schools and Staffing Survey and found that when school administrators were asked whether they used salaries to reward «excellence,» only 6 percent of traditional public school administrators answered yes, while «the rates for charter (36 percent) and private schools (22 percent) were much higher.»
For RTTT, he said, the Education Department had asked «for a smaller percent of money to reward excellence and courage.»
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