TEACHER QUALITY
In an effort to get better teachers into classrooms, both candidates support tying teacher pay to student performance.
It's a sticky issue for Obama, who was booed when he mentioned his support for performance pay raises in an address via satellite to the National Education Association.
And so Obama is trying to accommodate teachers who might be hostile to the idea, saying he wants performance pay raises to be negotiated by teachers, not imposed on them. And he says raises should be tied to, but not based solely on, standardized test scores.
"We can do this," Obama said Tuesday. "From Prince George's County in Maryland to Denver, Colo., we're seeing teachers and school boards coming together to design performance pay plans."
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