Bush Bonuses Go To Already Well-Paid Teachers

[pdurod1]

http://www.ketv.com/education/10146142/detail.html

POSTED: 11:22 am CDT October 24, 2006
UPDATED: 11:35 am CDT October 24, 2006

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Some Ohio teachers are getting a total of $20 million from the federal government as part of a federal incentive program.

Ohio's grant will be distributed in four of the state's most academically challenged school districts -- where teachers already have higher-than-average salaries.

Education Secretary Margaret Spellings announced the first of 16 grants provided by the Bush administration's Teacher Incentive Fund Tuesday.

A teachers' union lobbyist said the timing of the program's grant distribution -- just weeks before November elections -- is suspicious. The program allows the Bush administration to hand out money in the closing weeks of the fall campaign to teachers who raise student test scores.

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