Hillsborough County, FL merit pay program benefits teachers at affluent schools.

If this article doesn't persuade pro-merit pay crowd nothing will.

Email this to Florida State Senator John Thrasher who wants to tie 50% of a teacher's pay to test scores. His bill is flying through the Florida Senate. thrasher.john.web@flsenate.gov

Notice in this article that finalists for Teacher of the Year and National Board Certified teachers, as well as those at high poverty schools, are among those who are left off the merit pay list.


TAMPA - Hillsborough County's 15,000 teachers agreed last year to be guinea pigs in Florida's controversial experiment with merit pay, an issue dividing politicians and educators across the state.

The results weren't at all what officials expected.

A St. Petersburg Times investigation shows that almost three-fourths of the nearly 5,000 teachers who received merit pay worked at the county's more affluent campuses.



http://www.sptimes.com/2008/02/24/Hillsborough/Hillsborough_s_merit_.shtml

The war on the poor continues.

:( It probably won't persuade the pro-merit pay crown though. There seems to be a large group of people who think teachers should have magic powers and if they don't they automatically suck.