Barack Obama's Eduction Department is proposing linking teacher pay to performance through its "Race to the Top" program. But one of the best-performing districts in student performance in Illinois is an elementary school in Bannockburn, which pays its teachers an average of $53,000 a year. On the flipside is Argo Community High School District in Summit, their teachers earn an average of $92,000 a year, and they rank quite low in student performance, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.Yes, I'm well aware Bannockburn is well-to-do and Summit is not. Argo's teachers are older (seniority and tenure).
As it stands now, teacher pay in public schools is based on time-served and possession of an advanced degree. However, once considered heresy, more politicians are calling for dumping tenure, and if someone can explain to me why a master's degree makes a teacher more than marginally effective, please let me know.
As for education master's degrees, they're not that hard to earn, and there have been allegations that some teachers and administrators are boosting their pay armed with credentials from "diploma mills," as you can read about here, here and here.
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