Merit Pay = Cutting Teacher Pay
For a long time, I've been asking a question of the believers in the Merit Pay Fairy: will your program decrease or increase the overall payroll of the teaching force?
Looks like they can't avoid the question any longer in Tennessee:
Looks like they can't avoid the question any longer in Tennessee:
First of all, can we finally acknowledge that putting billionaires in charge of education runs the risk of having themTwo years into work with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to improve teacher effectiveness, city school officials have determined that the financial outlook has changed so much that the effort will be unsustainable without a major retooling.By revamping teacher salaries -- paying for test results instead of degrees or years of service -- Memphis City Schools leaders hope to find a big chunk of the $34 million a year it will take to keep going when the Gates money stops in 2015. [emphasis mine]
