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Argument: Better teachers should be paid more

Issue Report: Merit pay for teachers

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President Barack Obama said in March of 2009: teachers should be treated “like the professionals they are while also [being held] more accountable. Good teachers will be rewarded with more money for improved student achievement, and asked to accept more responsibilities for lifting up their schools.”[1]

President Barack Obama said in March of 2009: “It’s time to start rewarding good teachers, stop making excuses for bad ones.”[2]