Jeffco launches teacher performance pay
Jeffco Superintendent Cindy Stevenson, left, and Kerrie Dallman, president of the teachers' union, talk about collaboration at Thursday's press conference at O'Connell Middle School.
Jefferson County Public Schools on Thursday joined the national experiment in paying teachers differently, winning a $32.8 million federal grant for a five-year pilot in the district’s highest-poverty schools.
The plan, called Jeffco Strategic Compensation, is one of 62 proposals from 27 states to