Quote Originally Posted by gravedigger View Post
Just a guess, but the Governor?s attempts to incentivize people to stay and teach was probably too little too late. This issue is the real black eye of Mississippi and will remain one.

Teachers, police, firemen. We need to pay them like we expect them to be the best.

Sorry for the rant. I was raised by a long line of Mississippi educators.
At least for teachers, that is probably politically going to be impossible. It would probably involve lowering pay for starting teachers and might even involve lowering the median pay for teachers. You are going to have people fighting tooth and nail to keep everybody on the same pay scale and you'll also have people fighting over how to identify high performers and/or who gets to do so. And then assuming you end up with local control over allocating performance pay, a lot of the worst school districts will probably allocate pay based off politics and favoritism rather than performance, so it will always be under political attack.