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Gov. Sonny Perdue is seeking a 2-percent raise from the legislature for Georgia public school teachers -- and despite grim revenue forecasts and budget shortfalls, most people, especially teachers, think it's a good idea.
But why is it that teachers always get across-the-board raises? Regardless of performance or expertise, teachers' salaries are fundamentally based on seniority and uniform percentage increases. Teachers and their unions like it that way -- they are simply not confident that their pay can or should be influenced by how well they do their job.See the full content of this document
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Merit Pay for Teachers
Well, that might be about to change. In a just-released study by the non-partisan blue-ribbon Tea...
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