In his State of the State speech Governor Schwarzenegger called for a merit pay system where teachers, where salary would be linked to performance rather than tenure. This has alarmed teachers groups ...

Members of the Iowa DOGE Task Force discuss recommendations for streamlining Iowa's state government at the group's third meeting Aug. 6, 2025, in Des Moines, Iowa. (Maya Marchel Hoff/Gazette-Lee Des ...

Early last fall, then-House Speaker Lance Cargill held a series of legislative hearings to discuss Oklahoma teacher compensation. Featuring experts, testimony and information, Cargill’s meetings were ...

Last year, Arkansas did something it had not done in the more than two decades I have worked in K-12 education: It gave additional pay to teachers who helped their students learn the most. This ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story is the second of a series of stories examining the concept for merit pay for Oklahoma’s public school teachers. MOORE — It’s not that Jill Dudley, the president of the Moore ...

As the national debate over merit pay for teachers grows, local school districts - like most across the state - are content to sit back and watch other districts wrangle with the controversial topic.

I always feel better after I talk to Larry James. I was worried. Now I’m not. James, president and CEO of CitySquare, the city’s biggest and most comprehensive private anti-poverty organization, had ...

These columns have always been fans of merit pay. Pay for performance, bonus pay, merit pay--whatever you want to call it--has always worked. For example, take ... . almost any industry. But merit pay ...