As we noted in this week’s Taxpayer Q+A, the Pittsburgh Public Schools will be deciding on what happens, if anything, to the concept of pay for performance for teachers in the upcoming contract (it is probably a good bet that incentives for principals would remain, as that was in place prior to the teacher program). Interestingly the Wilkinsburg School District, which borders PPS to the east, just handed out bonuses to its two elementary school principals based on the scores of those two schools on the state’s performance profile.
As for the validity of the state’s profile that led to the bonuses? Well, we just recently wrote on the topic, and one of the two schools in the Wilkinsburg district was a major part of that analysis.
