A Thinktank report says NZ teachers pay should reflect their students progress. Photo: FileTeachers' pay rates should be based on how much progress their students make in their learning, a report says. But he said it was ``a massive challenge'' to develop a system to measure students' progress consistently, and he was against tying teachers' pay to any such measures. School Trustees Association president Lorraine Kerr said she also opposed tying teachers' pay to performance. He said charter schools had the power to pay more to good teachers above the standard pay scale.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 19, 2017 19:58 UTC