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I'm afraid I have to disagree with your assertion that Bill Sizemore wants to "raise teacher pay" with his ballot measure.

As you may be aware, Mr. Sizemore earns his living promoting a wide array of ballot measures. The current measure involving education is poorly crafted and, as one poster has already pointed out, does not solve the problem. This measure is not designed to help teachers - it is designed to provide him with a revenue stream while diverting the resources of the teacher's association, which will be forced to spend money protecting teachers against a measure that forces test-based raises which will do nothing to make Oregon's educational system better.

That's not education reform - that's politics at its most cynical.

It's good to have a discussion about how to retain, train and incentify the next generation of teachers, but Sizemore's ballot measure has nothing to do with that discussion so I hope the guests today will not let themselves get too distracted by it.

posted 5 years ago
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