Hayley Bakker is the Head of Customer Journey & Digital Enablement at beqom, which supports pay equity with data-driven software. The idea of paying for performance is a reassuring narrative.

Pictured is a hallway at River Oaks Elementary School, a Houston ISD campus. Houston ISD and its largest teachers union will be back in court Thursday to continue disputing the district's move to ...

Houston ISD released a "pay-for-performance" model that, combined with a new locally designed evaluation system for educators, is expected to be the basis for teachers' salaries starting in 2026-27.

Houston ISD will compensate its more than 10,000 teachers based on performance rather than tenure starting in the 2026-27 school year, an overhaul that could mean significantly more pay for the ...

"Let's do a quick little exercise right here," Texas' Education Commissioner Mike Morath announced Saturday during a presentation in downtown Houston. He asked the crowd at the annual Texas ...

When performance and pay happen in separate processes, something important gets lost. Employees miss the link between effort and reward, while managers face pressure to make consistent, fair choices ...

In 2022, Oregon’s public pension investments lost 1.55% of their value, the worst performance since the financial crisis in 2008 and one that tacked $6.6 billion on to the system’s already enormous ...

San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan’s revamped push to hold elected officials accountable by tying a small percentage of their pay to performance metrics could face future roadblocks, as some city ...

In a blow to Mayor Matt Mahan’s accountability agenda, the San Jose City Council Tuesday struck down his proposal to tie a portion of elected officials’ pay to performance. San Jose says its oversized ...