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Originally Posted by bkcunningham1
Just shows you that teacher pay doesn't have much to do with quality of education.
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Quite the contrary.
Across the country, performance in public schools is directly related to teacher pay. So it is no accident that Florida, which ranks very low in teacher pay is also ranked very low in performance. If you use the Villages Charter Schools as an example, one of the reasons they do so well is because they recruit better teachers and pay them more than area public schools do. The state just recently rewarded the charter school's overall good performance with another grant, which will be used for one time bonuses to teachers. This is the tenth consecutive year the charter schools received that award.