January 26, 2010
Louisiana
By WILL SENTELL @ The Advocate Capitol News Bureau
Major changes for some public schoolteachers could begin later this year and be operating in East Baton Rouge Parish and 27 other districts by 2012, state officials said Monday.
The new rules would include:
Linking teacher pay, promotion and retention to student performance.
Requiring ineffective teachers to get professional assistance, or face [...]
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January 25, 2010
Alabama
By Rena Havner Philips @ AL.com
Other states are promising sweeping reforms as they compete for a share of $4.35 billion worth of federal education dollars from a program known as Race to the Top. But Alabama’s application for $181 million basically says that schools here would use the money to expand existing programs. More extensive reforms, including performance-based pay [...]
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