Posted on Monday, 2nd November 2009 by Glenn D. Frankovis
Alan Borsuk wrote an article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about a Denver project to reform the way teachers are paid. The Denver Plan“includes four ways for teachers to earn additional money.” Included in those four ways is “having test scores of your school’s students meet or beat goals”. Of particular note in Borsuk’s article is this: “…the rules proposed by the Obama administration for getting a share of the billions of dollars to be distributed in the next couple of years under the label of the Race to the Top funds would bar any state that doesn’t allow student performance data to be used in evaluating teachers.”
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4 Responses to “Now here’s a novel idea. Tie pay to performance.”
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November 2nd, 2009 at 10:28 am
Won’t happen. NEA/WEAC owns all the pols, including Obama. He just did lipservice to the idea.
What MIGHT happen, with the recession, is WEAC-bust. That is, the taxpayers will revolt and the contracts will be voided.
November 2nd, 2009 at 12:06 pm
How dare you suggest something so… un-union.
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:22 pm
Pay for performance is a double edged sword. In no way shape or form do I side with the crap head WEAC union members, but you have to remember, a huge contingent of these kids are bred by morons that can’t wipe their own asses without a picture book.
Until such time as we actually admonish people breeding because they have the “junk”, this country will continually fill up with morons.
This state alone has one of the highest exoduses of college educated while we bring in over 50% of new residents that don’t even have a high school degree.
Where is that going? What you have to do is absolutely crush the teacher’s union and force those that breed like rats in a cage to be held accountable — along with enforcing existing laws.
November 3rd, 2009 at 7:24 am
You don’t think they’d find a way to massage the data and throw out the “outliers” so that teachers are only judged on the results of the top 10% or so of their students–i.e., the ones who would be motivated to get some book learnin’ even if the government didn’t force them to show up for 13 years? No one wants to lose the government employees union votes…amazingly, every teacher will merit a raise every year. Sort of like the 15-year-olds who can barely scrawl their own names get promoted to ninth grade.