Teacher Incentive Pay – Paying Off – Elsewhere

While Kentucky’s teachers continue to stonewall attempts to provide any sort of merit pay for better performance, the City of Cincinnati’s school system has moved beyond such closed-minded thinking with a new program that already shows that it makes a difference.

One clue to how Cincinnati did it – teachers there are not represented by a local affiliate of the National Education Association, which dominates here in Kentucky. Instead, Cincinnati’s teachers are represented by the much more forward looking American Federation of Teachers.

It remains to be seen if the Kentucky Education Association will be “teachable” on this subject.