The Unnoticed NEA Policy Shift
If the press is going to give NEA credit for a shift in position on teacher evaluations, how is it everyone outside the convention hall failed to see a relatively larger “change of direction?”
Because, you see, the National Education Association is no longer opposed to the use of merit pay or performance pay compensation systems.
The union is far from embracing them. It left intact language in its resolutions that call such systems “inappropriate,” and NEA still opposes “providing additional compensation to attract and/or retain education employees in hard-to-recruit positions.”
But Resolution F-10 was completely overhauled, and it used to begin:
“The National Education Association is opposed to the use of merit pay or performance pay compensation systems.”
It now begins:
“The National Education Association believes that the single salary schedule is the most transparent and equitable system for compensating education employees.”
There is no mention of merit or performance pay in F-10 anymore. The original language had
