Van Roekel confuses me on where he is on performance pay.
EdWeek’s Stephen Sawchuck has been following this story. Where does the NEA stand on the Teacher Incentive Fund, pay for performance and linking it to test scores?
Fuzzy stuff.
Fairly early on in this hearing, Rep. Miller made a particular point to note two items in Van Roekel’s testimony, which was mostly drawn from the union’s new report. In that report, as I noted here, the NEA said it would support union locals through the Teacher Incentive Fund program. It was the first time the union ever really affirmed the TIF program.
Van Roekel’s testimony also stated that the union would request every affiliate enter into a “memorandum of understanding” with districts to waive contract language that could prohibit the distribution of effective teachers.
You may remember the Great Performance-Pay Smackdown of 2007, when Miller and then-NEA President Reg Weaver during a hearing traded barbs about whether or not the NEA had reneged on its support for a performance-pay program.
