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Study: Most Michigan school districts in violation of merit-pay law

An analysis by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a conservative think-tank, has determined that 80 percent of Michigan school districts surveyed are in violation of the state’s teacher merit-pay law [1], which went into effect in January 2010 under former Gov. Jennifer Granholm, the Huffington Post reports. The state law mandated that public schools “implement and maintain a method of compensation for its teachers and school administrators that includes job performance and job accomplishments as a significant factor [2] in determining compensation and additional compensation.” Of the 104 contracts the Center analyzed, 81 do not pay teachers based on job performance, instead relying on the traditional “single-salary schedule” that takes into account only years of service and level of education…

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