ST. PAUL, Minn.—Minnesota’s pioneering teacher pay-for-performance system has grown into one that awards a bonus to nearly every teacher who participates. Of the more than 10,000 Twin Cities educators ...

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The promise of more money has not exactly sent school districts in Minnesota rushing to embrace Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s widely touted Q Comp performance-pay plan for teachers. After three years, in ...

Teachers and district officials in the Minnetonka School District are struggling to come up with a way to meet state standards to qualify for Q-Comp, an alternative way of compensating teachers based ...

GRAND MEADOW — The latest batch of state math and reading scores will net Grand Meadow's teachers some of the bonus money they negotiated into their contract as part of the state's Q Comp program.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP)-- Seven school districts and 23 charter schools are joining Minnesota's alternative system for evaluating and paying teachers -- the signature education initiative under Gov. Tim ...

ST. PAUL -- Give Minnesota's Q Comp teacher pay and performance program an "incomplete." That was the message auditors delivered Tuesday to legislators who are considering Gov. Tim Pawlenty's request ...

Minnesota Education Commissioner Alice Seagren is the latest state official to hit the road for meetings around the state: She was in Marshall, Minn., Tuesday and told educators that Gov. Tim Pawlenty ...

ANOKA, Minn. (AP) -- The state's largest school district, Anoka-Hennepin, is a step closer to joining the state's alternative system for evaluating and paying teachers, called Q Comp. District ...

Studies show that after parents, teachers have the biggest impact on student success. That's why we are transforming Minnesota's system of education in order to recruit, retain and retrain the best ...