In his State of the State speech Governor Schwarzenegger called for a merit pay system where teachers, where salary would be linked to performance rather than tenure. This has alarmed teachers groups and unions, who say that a lack of resources is the real reason for poor student performance in California. Larry Mantle talks with Gaynor McCown, Executive Director of the Teachers Commission, Mary Bergen, head of the California Federation of Teachers, and Eloise Lopez Metcalfe, Director of the UCLA Center X Teacher Education Program, a graduate credentialing and Master's program, about the merits of merit pay.
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