I want to share an article on the Democratic presidential campaign that I came across as I was putting the news of the day together. To me, it’s one reason why Hillary Clinton got the AFT endorsement. Here are the key quotes:
Merit pay for teachers “could be demeaning and discouraging, and who would decide” who would receive it, [Hillary Clinton] said in a meeting with teachers at Cunningham Elementary. “It would open a whole lot of problems.”
Clinton said Monday she does support incentives for teachers who work in geographic areas and on subjects where there are shortages. And she has said she supports “schoolwide pay for performance programs because I think that the school has to be viewed as a whole unit with everybody working together.”
2 Comments:
1 jd2718
· Nov 20, 2007 at 8:33 pm
This was after the UFT deal, so it could not have been a reason for something that occurred earlier.
Further, she seems to be using EdWize talking points. Note that she calls school wide merit pay “school wide pay for performance”.
If your point is that Hillary is close to the UFT, well, that’s just not news.
Jonathan
2 AFT NCLBlog
· Nov 21, 2007 at 4:29 pm
[...] to a fuller discussion of paying teachers as the professionals that they are.Update: Edwize here, Campaign K-12 here, Sherman Dorn [...]
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