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Districts to pay teachers based in part on their students’ test scores

  • 10-05-2011
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By Sue Frey/ EdSource Extra

In what is thought to be the first experiment of its kind in the state, two California school districts will give teachers bonuses of up to $5,000 based in part on measuring how well their students score on standardized tests this year. One district is Lucia Mar Unified in San Luis Obispo County, situated in a rural area on the Central California coast between Santa Maria and San Luis Obispo. The district, the largest in the county, serves about 10,600 students in 17 schools. The other is Northern Humboldt Union High, at almost the other end of the state. Both received a federal Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) grant to implement their new teacher evaluation programs. (more...)

 

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