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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If there was really a teacher shortage, teachers should trade tenure protections for higher pay. No district is going to needlessly fire a good teacher if there's a shortage, and Republicans would probably get behind it, particularly if it included a [b]pay-for-performance[/b] element.[/quote]

How would that work? Extra hours? Stipends for extra duties? How would performance be measured for pay?[/quote]

The main things that come to mind are standardized tests and principal/peer evaluations. [/quote]

Only a few subjects have standardized tests.  Using standardized tests would punish teachers working in lower achieving schools.  Principal and peer evaluations are too subjective and personal.  It it also a huge amount of work for those staff.[/quote]

You do realize almost every other job has similar challenges, right?  Pay raises are almost always primarily determined by subjective performance evaluations by your supervisors and sometimes peers.[/quote]

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