That the program was not well thought out, untimely, and poorly understood, almost guaranteed that the Houston Independent School District’s ballyhooed incentive pay plan would get jeers.
But it gets worse. The District programmed the formula incorrectly. It has asked about a hundred teachers to return as much as $2,790, each. Could you make this stuff up?
Motivation? That’s not a game many educational institutions seem to know much about.
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I hope this will make my No Child Left Behind stocks go up so I make some money on it :-) http://www.prediction-markets.info/rd.php?language=en&wordid=2254
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Those checks were cut in January. Nasty system, nasty people. They are trying to collect money back from part-timers, iow, those least able to afford it and those most likely to have had to spend it already.
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