?The funding available for performance pay represents an opportunity to provide meaningful incentives and rewards for exemplary teachers in a significant number of Virginia schools.'' *
?Robert McDonnell, Governor or Virginia
?McDonnell pushes teacher merit pay in Va. Schools,? The Washington Post
40%
The percent of first generation college students that have to pay for remedial courses to make up for what they didn't learn in high school
? A School Reform Backlash?,? Huffington Post
* This quote does not necessarily represent the views of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute