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State Legislators Propose Merit Pay For Teachers

WUNC | By Meghan Modafferi,
Frank Stasio
Published February 28, 2014 at 12:16 PM EST
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A task force created by the legislature last year met earlier this week to discuss incentives for good teaching. Some Republican leaders favor a merit pay system that would reward a limited number of teachers based on their individual performances. But many educators believe this would discourage collaboration within their schools. 

Host Frank Stasio talks with WUNC education reporter Reema Khrais. 

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Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
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