Saturday, September 8, 2007

Tell Congress: Respect Educators – Reject “Performance Pay” Based on Student Test Scores

The House Committee on Education and Labor has released a reauthorization draft for Title II of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act/No Child Left Behind (the teacher quality title) that contains provisions that could result in the imposition of test-based pay programs on teachers without their agreement.

NEA and ISEA oppose these provisions and believes they must be changed to ensure that any such program is either agreed to through collective bargaining or, where bargaining doesn’t exist, through a 75 percent majority vote of affected teachers.

Send a Message to Congress Today!

Tell your Representatives in Congress to oppose imposing test-based pay programs on teachers without their agreement.