Another way to improve our public schools is to introduce merit pay for teachers.

And he speaks generally of giving merit pay to teachers based on student performance.

Some commissions have urged a new system of merit pay.

He supports merit pay for teachers, along with firing them if they don't meet certain standards.

In the civil service merit pay has been extended to cover all grades from April 1990.

Then, unless they bring up an issue such as merit pay, the conversation stops.

"My members are more against individual merit pay than anything I have ever seen them against," she said.

The money could also be used to reward good teachers with merit pay.

He said using merit pay would work especially well in the city's schools by rewarding excellent teachers.

However it soon became the standard of merit pay for teachers.