Steve Baker, a spokesman for the New Jersey Education Association, said the union would want to see details but generally opposes merit programs that are tied to standardized test scores or competition for a limited amount of funding.Let's see...teachers are professionals, and should be paid like professionals. But we can't adjust pay to performance, like professionals. Maybe the NJEA needs some remediation courses in logic.
"Anything that puts teachers in competition with each other … [is] problematic. It takes away from the cooperative effort you like to see in a classroom," he said.
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