merit pay

noun

1. an additional sum paid to an employee, as a schoolteacher, whose work is superior and whose services are valued.

Example Sentences

Just as Marten foretold when she took over San Diego Unified, liberals have moved away from charter school-heavy reforms and strategies like merit pay, in favor of a public school system led by educators instead of reformers.

From Voice of San Diego

Democrats have moved away from charter-school-heavy reforms and strategies like merit pay – just as Marten foretold.

From Voice of San Diego

But teachers could be split off from the union's leadership on the issues of evaluations and merit pay, he said.

From The Daily Beast

Last week, I defended bad merit pay schemes as perhaps the best that hyper-bureaucratized government school systems could do.

From The Daily Beast

Further, they fended off his call for merit pay and for eliminating automatic increases tied to tenure and continuing education.

From The Daily Beast

They have also backed contentious but needed initiatives like merit pay and ending teacher tenure for failing teachers as well.

From The Daily Beast

Research on the outcomes of teacher merit pay programs and charter school expansion, for example, remains mixed.

From The Daily Beast