Comment Re:Or we could hire more teachers... (Score 1) 227
I think there needs to be a combination of higher pay and actually evaluating and promoting/firing teachers based on their performance. As far as I understand, it is quite difficult to be fired from teaching after one's been employed to tenure, which should be gotten rid of. As for the pay issue, I know plenty of intelligent people who spent the time to get post-graduate degrees who would not teach k-12 because they can get significantly more income through other occupations.