Virginia’s largest school district says no to performance pay
It is seriously refreshing to hear that just as soon as Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell announced a new teacher performance pay pilot program that would tie their pay to student standardized test scores, the state’s largest school system said thanks but no thanks.
Jack Dale, superintendent of Fairfax County public schools, told my colleague Kevin Sieff that the district’s previous experiment with performance pay, in the early 1980s, was a failure and that he would pass on the program and any attached funding that comes with it — even in these financially troubled times.
McDonnell, jumping on a standardized test-based performance pay bandwagon spreading across the country with the backing of the Obama administration, announced a pilot program Tuesday that would distribute a total of $3 million to districts in the state that have one or
