Ms. Anderson, 43, used some of that money to establish merit-based pay in a teachers' contract that was hailed even by national unions as a groundbreaking compromise.
In the counties, the majority of which were rural and had relatively few public employees, formally established merit systems were rare.
But Mr. Christie, deciding the compromise had severely weakened the state's ability to carry out measures derided by the union — like establishing merit pay for individual teachers, using student test scores as a primary measure of a teacher's performance and making it tougher for teachers to get tenure — rejected the agreement announced on May 27.
Now has Your Highness started a great enterprise and established merit for ten thousand generations, this is certainly not anything stupid Confucians can understand.
Specifically, he said the state would probably revisit a Senate bill vetoed by Gov. Charlie Crist that would have established merit-based pay for teachers.
Mr. Hevesi said the bill would establish a merit selection system for hiring at the authorities, which have been a gold mine of patronage for governors.
While teaching a medical ethics course, he realized that scientific data was needed to ground his analysis and establish the merit of his ethical arguments.
To establish the merit of the work, present results are compared with those values obtained from the previous model and a reasonable difference in results has been noticed.
Petitioner's success on habeas, where the question was the alleged misconduct by several state agents, does not necessarily establish the merit of his civil rights action where only the respondent's alleged wrongdoing is at issue.
Given their similar missions and common interest in developing leaders who will improve the world around them, the Yale School of Management and Teach for America (TFA) have teamed up to establish a merit scholarship for a qualified TFA alumnus to attend Yale SOM.
Explaining the decision to do so, a spokesperson for the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) told the Observer: "After an initial review of the case, we decided that we would need to conduct further detailed investigations to establish what merit there may or may not be in the submissions made to us.
