Idaho passes teacher merit-pay bill

which is not breaking my vow of no political outrage for today because this is good news.

My buddy, Rep. Bob Nonini, R-Coeur d’Alene, the bill’s House sponsor and chairman of the House Education Committee, is getting flack but, trust me, he can handle the heat.

Nonini told the House, “Pay for the performance will reward excellence in the classroom.”
He bristled at suggestions that the bill is an “unfunded mandate.” “This is statutory spending,” he said. “That means it gets funded automatically from monies appropriated to fund public schools.”

You go, Bob!

Nonini told the House, “The way we pay Idaho teachers is archaic, it fails to recognize excellence and reward the great teachers we have in Idaho classrooms today.” He said, “Idaho teachers are solely paid on how much education they have … and how many years they have in the classroom.”

The horrors of it all.  Good teachers will be rewarded for being good. 

source

See also: 

Idaho moves to strip collective bargaining rights from teachers...(passed and on the Governor's desk for signing)