A number of you in the LYS Nation are now Twitter users. If you haven’t done so yet, we want you to join us. To let you see what you are missing, here are the Top 10 LYS Tweets from the week of August 24, 2014. 1. “The Court further finds that the Legislature has…
In response to the 6/19/2014 post, “The Astronomical Cost of Comp Time,” a LYS Principal writes: SC, Your post was right on. Love it! And just so you know, we now have summer training stipend is our budget. SC Response Fantastic. We all know if our teachers are to have any chance to keep up…
In response to the 6/19/2014 post, “The Astronomical Cost of Comp Time,” a LYS C/I Director writes: SC, I have to reply to your comp day example. We use comp days to compensate staff for attending professional development in our district. This was the practice in the previous district I worked in as well. However,…
Dateline Texas: Another teacher merit pay plan bites the dust.Texas is canceling the Texas Educator Excellence Grant (TEEG) program and is shifting some of the funds to another incentive program. The TEEG program rewarded individual teachers at poor schools for individual performance. Surprisingly, to the State and the sponsoring politicians, the program was not successful.Lead…
The following post is based on thoughts related to: Letters to the editor that the NY Times has recently received concerning public schools. The link is: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/opinion/l17educ.html?emc=eta1 Jacqueline Ancess writes, “In education, research on performance pay shows no substantive gains in student achievement, and all Mr. Obama’s policy will do is reinforce the ill-conceived notion…
