Schools Matter: Broadie PerfPay Plan Gets Smacked Down

Schools Matter: Broadie PerfPay Plan Gets Smacked Down:

Broadie PerfPay Plan Gets Smacked Down

by Jim Horn

by Jim Horn and Anonymous Knoxvillian

The Broad Agenda for Tennessee public schools was crippled last evening when Knox County Commissioners rejected the McIntyre school budget increase to fund a meritless performance pay plan for teachers.


For months now the Broad Machine, steered in Knoxville by Supt. Jim McIntyre, has been on a non-stop PR campaign to waste public dollars on a tried-and-failed merit pay plan.  Despite unerring support by the TN Business Roundtable, the local Chamber of Commerce, the local corporate media (print and non-print), and untold millions in behind-the-scenes funding of astroturf groups pretending to be education advocates, the $35 million dollar plan did not even make it to the floor for a vote at last evening's County Commission meeting.


Numerous commissioners and the mayor all went on record stating that they