merit pay

Just as Marten foretold when she took over San Diego Unified, liberals have moved away from charter school-heavy reforms and strategies like merit pay, in favor of a public school system led by educators instead of reformers.

Democrats have moved away from charter-school-heavy reforms and strategies like merit pay – just as Marten foretold.

But teachers could be split off from the union's leadership on the issues of evaluations and merit pay, he said.

Last week, I defended bad merit pay schemes as perhaps the best that hyper-bureaucratized government school systems could do.

Further, they fended off his call for merit pay and for eliminating automatic increases tied to tenure and continuing education.

They have also backed contentious but needed initiatives like merit pay and ending teacher tenure for failing teachers as well.

Research on the outcomes of teacher merit pay programs and charter school expansion, for example, remains mixed.