Sentence examples for support merit from inspiring English sources

"We support merit pay in the broadest context," he said.

On the one hand, there are the reformers like Joel Klein and Michelle Rhee, who support merit pay for good teachers, charter schools and tough accountability standards.

Mr. Giuliani's opponent in the Senate race, Hillary Rodham Clinton, said last week that she would support merit pay plans that rewarded entire schools, rather than singling out individual teachers, an idea that some unions also support.

Mrs. Clinton said today that she could support merit pay awarded to entire schools rather than individual teachers, a position close to that of the union and Mr. Levy.

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But Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani supports merit pay for individual teachers whose students show the most improvement on standardized tests.

A1 Mr. Levy said in an interview that he supported merit pay but closer to the type acceptable to the teachers' union than to the mayor's plan.

Yesterday, in a telephone interview, Mr. Levy said he emphatically supported merit pay as a tool to encourage teachers to take risks and push their students to perform.

Mr. Bloomberg supports merit pay, but only if it is awarded to every teacher in a school where test scores rise.

Asked whether she supported merit pay, Mrs. Clinton said she favored "pay for performance," adding that she would elaborate on the subject in a speech in Syracuse on Tuesday.

The decision received lukewarm support from the Giuliani administration, which supports merit bonuses for individual teachers who raise their students' test scores, and from the teachers' union, which insists on across-the-board bonuses for all teachers at a high-performing school.