Hechinger Report | Questions abound as districts shift to merit pay for teachers

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Questions abound as districts shift to merit pay for teachers

by Scott Elliott

Raymond Park Intermediate Academy Principal Ryan Russell sits in on the fifth-grade classroom of Jen Hess for a three- to five-minute "walk through" evaluation of her class.

If your child’s teacher seems a little bit on edge this year, it might not be your imagination.
Education reforms now going into effect in Indiana, and similar ones sweeping the nation, are targeting something many Americans consider to be strictly off-limits: their paychecks.
The laws passed in 2011 and being implemented over the next two or three years were partly based on the