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(Continued from Page 1) thing—not something that can be done overnight,” he acknowledged, adding that he was waiting on merit pay reports from school divisions in Charlottesville and Lynchburg.
Noting that he had met to discuss merit pay with Corina Fountain, president of the Rappahannock County Education Association (RCEA) Masterson said that there had been ‘‘some misconception” prior to their talk but that everything had been straightened out.
RCEA Opposed To
Merit Pay
Recognized by School Board chairman Beverly Massie, Mrs. Fountain read a statement that was highly critical of merit pay systems. “The key stumbling block to merit pay is still the method of identifying the superior teacher." said Mrs. Fountain. ‘‘No valid or reliable instrument has yet been developed to measure teacher effectiveness or the total
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