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Is Silicon Valley Driving Teachers Out?
- germinalphrase 11y agoSV could find ways to increase teacher salaries beyond what the property tax funding ceiling will allow, but this would require members of the community to recognize - and be motivated to action by - a perceived lack of teacher quality. But, this won't happen because despite all the noise around 'teacher accountability' we don't yet have a reliable way to measure teacher efficacy. This both prevents the out-and-out firing of substandard teachers (unless they're obviously terrible performers) while also undermining a strong teacher's ability to say "by these measures I am having X impact on student learning and require additional compensation". You can't make a strong argument for additional compensation if you can't demonstrate your value. Likewise, SV families aren't going to push for additional compensation so long as their teachers are considered 'good enough'. Not a lot of winning here on the wages front, so increase housing density?