Obama Pushes $5 Billion in Grants to Revamp Teachers’ Pay
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The Obama administration began a push to tie teacher pay to performance instead of seniority, dangling a proposed $5 billion in incentives for U.S. states and districts that embrace the president’s approach.
The grant program, part of Obama’s $69.8 billion education-budget proposal for fiscal 2013, seeks to revamp tenure practices at elementary and secondary schools to make it easier to weed out underperformers and raise pay to attract top college graduates to the teaching profession. Education Secretary Arne Duncan is meeting with teachers today in Washington.