New Jersey Governor Chris Christie said he wants to link public school teachers' pay and tenure to their students' performance, and to make it easier for districts to fire their worst educators.
"Pay should go to the people who have earned it," he said today in a town hall meeting in Old Bridge Township. Tenure has become "a sclerosis that coats the veins of our school system."
Christie, a Republican who has said the state's education system is costly and failing many children, plans to administratively overhaul the process of teacher performance evaluations and to spend $20 million during the next two years improving a database that tracks them. He also proposed expanding teacher training and "alternative routes" to becoming a principal.
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