{"id":4718,"date":"2011-02-22T05:58:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T10:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinbryant.com\/?p=4718"},"modified":"2011-02-22T05:58:14","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T10:58:14","slug":"merit-pay-for-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/merit-pay-for-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"merit pay for teachers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scsenate.gov\/sess119_2011-2012\/bills\/3002.htm\" target=\"_blank\">H. 3002<\/a> is a bill to reform how we fund education in South Carolina. There is a provision that allows the State Department of Education to establish a merit pay system in place of the current step program.<\/p>\n<p>The bill was amended last week to require a study committee of teacher&#8217;s to provide a report back to the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance by Dec. 1.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Mick Zais, SC Education Superintendent, has advocated for a merit pay system that includes some measure of performance as a way of compensating teachers.<\/p>\n<p>If we do establish a performance pay scale for teachers, I doubt very seriously if the legislature is the appropriate entity to create such a system. I&#8217;d rather either the Department or the local school districts make these guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>While we&#8217;re waiting on the SC House to debate this bill, I&#8217;d like to see what other states have done in this area before the Senate takes up H. 3002.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H. 3002 is a bill to reform how we fund education in South Carolina. There is a provision that allows the State Department of Education to establish a merit pay system in place of the current step program. The bill was amended last week to require a study committee of teacher&#8217;s to provide a report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2gEQ0-1e6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinbryant.com\/kbarchive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}