Survey research conducted in Florida’s Hillsborough County by NCPI director Matthew Springer and Brian Jacob, professor of education policy at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, was featured in Education Week. Findings were presented at the center’s first national conference on performance incentives held Feb. 28 and 29. These NCPI affiliates surveyed teacher attitudes toward pay for performance in general, and their experiences in two recent performance incentive initiatives, the Special Teachers Are Rewarded program and currently operating Merit Award Program. Results suggest only modest support for pay for performance policies in this large, urban Florida school district. However, teachers who hold more positive views of their principal’s leadership and more confidence in their own teaching ability tend to be more supportive of such pay policies. Springer and Jacob also found teachers to have limited understanding of how these two incentive pay initiatives operate.

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