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Nov 30 • 10 tweets • 4 min read
Today the NC State Board of Education will hear a recommendation from the #PEPSC Commission to approve a broad framework which would pave the way for switching all North Carolina teachers from an experience-based pay scale to merit pay. #nced #ncpol

simbli.eboardsolutions.com/SB_Meetings/Vi…
This highly experimental move would make NC the first state in the country to stop compensating teachers based on their commitment to a career in the classroom and instead determine their pay through standardized test scores, evaluations, surveys, and "to be determined"
What's being presented today is the culmination of a process which began in late 2018 in closed "Human Capital Roundtable" meetings which likely violated state law. Participants were required to follow "Vegas Rules," and steps were taken to hide communication from the public.
Receipts on that final claim:

notesfromthechalkboard.com/2022/09/25/sre…
From the beginning, classroom teachers were deliberately kept out of the design process (because the people doing the work knew they would hate this idea). State superintendent @CTruittNCDPI took steps to ensure no private surveys would be conducted. notesfromthechalkboard.com/2022/07/05/ncd…
The "Blueprint" being recommended today (sort of) passed in a bungled vote which saw that same state superintendent call two members she knew would vote yes back to the meeting because the motion hadn't passed. notesfromthechalkboard.com/2022/11/11/ini…
Make no mistake, if North Carolina heads down this path the most noteworthy result will be diminished teacher quality as we significantly lower the bar for entry into the profession. Our student learning outcomes will suffer.
A far better approach would be reversing policy moves over the past decade plus which have dried our teacher pipeline to a trickle. Pass significant pay raises without making teachers jump through hoops like AL and MS did recently with 100% GOP leadership. mississippitoday.org/2022/03/22/law…
Please take the time today to reach out to State Board members and let them know how you feel they should vote.

tinyurl.com/NCSBEcontact
Side note, if any of your emails bounce you can thank the NCDPI communications team for not fixing State Board of Education email addresses even though I informed them of the problem months ago.

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Nov 30
With all due respect to Eckel and Vaughan's marketing advice here, lowering the bar so that anyone who can pass some online quizzes can become a teacher is not a "student first model"--it's a recipe for disaster. #nced #ncpol Image
Research is clear that the most important driver of student learning is having an excellent teachers.
This approach would essentially allow anyone with a pulse to become a teacher. @srebeducation and the Human Capital Roundtable, who drafted the plan at SBE's behest, would tell you that's fine because the "effectiveness measures" in Pathways will tell us who's doing a good job.
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Nov 10
Update on merit pay for North Carolina teachers:

Today the PEPSC Commission met and, by a vote of 9-7, approved a "Blueprint for Action" which is the first step toward moving all North Carolina teachers from an experience-based pay scale to merit pay. #nced #ncpol
You can see the vote breakdown below.
Like pretty much everything else in this torturous saga, the vote was a complete 💩 show.

Initially it was tied 7-7. Then two members (Sam Houston and Michael Maher) who had left the virtual meeting were called back in to vote, but a third (Anthony Graham) was not.
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Oct 22
In about 3 weeks the PEPSC Commission is expected to vote on the NC Pathways to Excellence merit pay scheme. If they approve the proposal it will then go to the State Board of Education for consideration.
#nced #ncpol #ncga
There is broad consensus among educators that this plan is a terrible idea.

Not only has educator feedback been ignored, but our state superintendent @CTruittNCDPI has taken steps to prevent independent feedback collection in an effort to control messaging.
Our partners at @NPEaction (founded by @DianeRavitch, executive directed by @carolburris) have put together this handy tool for letting PEPSC Commission members know that this merit pay plan is a bad idea.

p2a.co/UzROT6m #nced
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Oct 6
Some important points to consider:

On what planet is "other tools not yet developed" an acceptable proposal for how we will measure teacher effectiveness? This cake isn't even half baked and we want the State Board of Education to approve it? #nced #ncpol
The whole viability of this scheme rests on whether or not it fairly and accurately measures teacher effectiveness. If Tomberlin and DPI can't figure that out now they don't deserve a blank check.
Also, the people driving this scheme keep talking about the big salary increases because that distracts from the myriad flaws in the proposal (see above) and from the shady and probably illegal process they followed to get to this point.
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Oct 5
Here’s your regular reminder that the NC Pathways to Excellence merit pay proposal which is currently making its way toward the State Board of Education was crafted in secret Human Capital Roundtable meetings which likely violated state law. #nced #PEPSC #ncpol
At issue is whether the Human Capital Roundtable, which was made up of state employees and appointed officials and conducted business on drafting what it hopes will become state law during the work day, meets the statutory definition of a public body.
I've consulted with multiple attorneys who specialize in this area of the law and all of them believe that it does and that a judge would likely agree.
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Aug 26
Today’s merit pay public records release shows the Southern Regional Education Board’s Project Manager scheming with SREB’s president and Eckel and Vaughan’s founder about how to best prevent the press from attending the NC Human Capital Roundtable’s meetings. #nced #ncpol
The Human Capital Roundtable (HCR) drafted the unpopular Pathways to Excellence teacher merit pay proposal, holding regular meetings from December 2018 through summer 2022 which were never announced to the public despite state open meetings law.
On May 5, 2022, @EducationNC reporter Alex Granados contacted SREB Project Manager Megan Boren to ask about attending a Human Capital Roundtable meeting.
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