LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KAIT) - Thousands of Arkansas educators will receive a big boost to their paychecks. Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and the Arkansas Department of Education announced Tuesday that more ...
In recent years, Arkansas has joined the growing number of states implementing merit-pay systems for teachers--policies that aim to reward effective teaching with financial incentives. At first glance ...
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Only a few weeks after the governor's office announced merit raises in the executive branch, the state announced that thousands of teachers will get performance-based bonuses, too. So backslaps all ...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — More than 4,200 educators in Arkansas will receive up to $10,000 bonuses through the LEARNS Merit Teacher Incentive Fund Program. “Behind every successful student is a dedicated ...
The Iowa DOGE task force is facing pushback from public sector unions over ideas to change public pensions and introduce merit pay for teachers. A panel leader clarified that merit pay would be ...
NBC 5 confirmed some basic details about a proposal to raise teacher pay in the Texas Senate. This comes after Gov. Greg Abbott declared teacher pay raises an emergency item in his State of the State ...
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 ...