{"id":2880,"date":"2004-05-09T03:24:20","date_gmt":"2004-05-09T03:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/wp\/?p=2880"},"modified":"2004-05-09T03:24:20","modified_gmt":"2004-05-09T03:24:20","slug":"mr-market-meets-g-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=2880","title":{"rendered":"MR. MARKET MEETS G-SCHOOLS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>School districts across the country are attempting to introduce market concepts, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/05\/09\/national\/09TEAC.html?pagewanted=2&#038;th\">pay-for-performance<\/a>, into the public schools.  Teachers unions are wary, so it&#8217;s been slow going.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two years ago, teachers in Cincinnati overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to link their pay to their skills, and in Iowa, a 2001 law tying salary to teacher evaluations and student test scores has been undone by a lack of financing. <\/p>\n<p>In New York, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Joel I. Klein, the schools chancellor, also want to tie raises to teacher and student performance, as did Mayor Bloomberg&#8217;s predecessor, Rudolph W. Giuliani. But without the track record of cooperation that marked the Denver initiative, New York City officials have been blocked by the teachers union, the United Federation of Teachers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s basically a power struggle; the union sees p-f-p as a union-busting technique.  I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s not, but I have other concerns.  Like, how do you measure the relative success of any one teacher?  In Denver, nearly 95% of the teachers in the program got the (modest) bonus.  Not exactly a bell-shaped curve.  Politicians crafting these programs will need to be especially careful to make sure they&#8217;re not just a giveaway of money to the teachers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School districts across the country are attempting to introduce market concepts, such as pay-for-performance, into the public schools. Teachers unions are wary, so it&#8217;s been slow going. Two years ago, teachers in Cincinnati overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to link their pay to their skills, and in Iowa, a 2001 law tying salary to teacher evaluations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}