No easy plan for teacher pay

05.23.08

The Salt Lake Tribune

Lawmakers' plan to spend $20 million next school year on performance pay for educators might have some problems, several superintendents said Thursday. 

Superintendents of the Salt Lake City, Box Elder and Uintah school districts said at an Education Interim Committee meeting Thursday that school districts are struggling to create plans to pay educators for performance. Adding to their stress, districts must come up with plans by the end of June to get a piece of the $20 million lawmakers approved in March. 

Some states have taken years to decide how to pay teachers based on their performance. Now, Utah teachers' pay is based mostly on years of experience and their educations.

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The New Jersey Supreme Court ordered fact-finding hearings on the state's new education-funding formula before the justices will rule on whether it should permanently replace the old system that favored certain largely poor, urban school districts.

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Report: Reading First Impact Study

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