As for the stalled contract negotiations, the teachers have reportedly offered, in return for salary increases, to work longer hours, be subject to faster disciplinary proceedings and accept merit-based pay increases depending on the performance in each school, rather than in each classroom.
One official said that the union had already "crossed the threshold" to accepting merit pay by negotiating a draft agreement with Mr. Levy that would give teachers at high-performing schools free airline tickets as a reward.
Second, it seems odd -- well, in O'Reilly's case, not so odd -- that Justin is being singled out when there are scores of student-athletes from wealthy, and famous, families who have similarly accepted merit-based scholarships.
After long opposing any form of merit pay, Ms. Weingarten has signaled, to the outrage of some union members, that she may accept schoolwide merit pay.
In contrast, Mr. Giuliani wants the union, which represents 80,000 public school teachers, to accept individualized merit pay, in which some teachers in a school would receive bonuses, while others would not, depending on how their students perform.
Here is the letter, which was signed by 20 academics… We are disappointed that the Guardian now appears to accept the "merit" of the new system of press self-regulation being proposed by David Hunt of the Press Complaints Commission and Guy Black of the Telegraph.
He also argues Labor should accept the merit of free trade agreements, such as the pact with South Korea, not as an article of faith left over from the Hawke/Keating economic policy orthodoxy, which favoured trade liberalisation – but for contemporary reasons.
First we all endorse model A, then model B is cast in opposition to it, then it is accepted that both have merit, but efforts are made to quantify their relative applicabilities-with A-ists and B-ists each trying to bias the results in their favor.
For example, those who accept the merit-based conception of moral responsibility have tended to be incompatibilists.
