Mark Tallman, associate executive director for advocacy at KASB, said he wasn’t aware of research-based consensus that pay for performance improved overall academic results in the classroom. It is a topic best left to locally elected school boards, he said… “K-NEA lobbyist Mark Desetti said state legislatures wading into the...
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The Unique Insanity of Teacher Merit Pay
Thank you for this well-done piece, Marcel Harmon. Merit pay was up for discussion in the House Education Committee recently. “Falling back on another trite saying, “insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” With such a long, unproductive and repeated history, it would...
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So, the “extraordinary need fund,” paid for by school districts, became a state tax, with the state keeping $2.9 million of the $12.3 million raised. “It was fair to wonder in November whether school districts might ever see the $2.9 million remaining of the total $12.3 million in the ‘extraordinary...
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Sharing a Facebook post from our friends at Johnson County Educators THE TRUTH ABOUT JOHNSON COUNTY TEACHER SALARIES Last week we shared news articles quoting comments made by Sen. Jeff Melcher of Leawood concerning teacher pay. Melcher is quoted saying, “It’s actually a pretty good living. I look at the...
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