Study shows Texas teacher merit pay helps keep staff, slightly helps test scores Money seems to motivate folks. Texas’ first merit pay system, which was focused on paying teachers for teaching at low performing schools, was unsuccessful. The current merit-pay system, called DATE, is better – the study noted below found that ...
Teacher pensions underfunded by half a trillion nationwide Want to take a spin and hope we can afford this? Governments have a nasty habit of providing their employees with huge pension packages that then tend to grow as successive elected legislatures add to those pensions without apparent regard for the ...