Charter Schools, Unions, and Linking Teachers with Student Achievement Data

By Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. 09/17/2009

Education Next’s Paul Peterson and Chester E. Finn, Jr. discuss the week’s education news, including an announcement that a charter school in Massachusetts has signed a collective bargaining agreement with its teachers, an agreement that includes merit pay.

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(Also available: Peterson and Finn’s discussion of What Congress is not working on – namely the reauthorization of NCLB.)