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this discussion of the comparability loophole and “forced assignment” : There are many ways a district could comply with a legitimate comparability rule that don’t involve transferring veteran teachers to high-poverty schools. Instead of hiring teachers who make more, they could hire more teachers and reduce class size, which makes particular sense given that the benefits of class size reduction are mostly limited to at-risk students. Presumably veteran teachers at wealthier schools could handle more students on the other end–if not, why are they being paid more money? Or, the district could pay teachers in high-poverty schools a bonus. Or it could stop tying pay to seniority. Or it could increase spending on non-salary items in schools that serve the most poor children.
All of that said, there could be instances when districts have to rearrange the distribution of teachers. Let’s be perfectly clear: forced assignment of teachers to schools where they’d rather not teach is nobody’s idea of a
