Third, it created a merit-pay system in which teachers whose pupils pass certain exams get bonuses.
His merit-pay proposal would expand the uses of a teacher-evaluation system still being hammered out for the city's teachers.
This opinion is supported by long-term research published recently in the United States, which tracked a sample of academics who had worked within a merit-pay system.
The action by 2, 800 staff (nearly half the workforce) at SC First Bank Korea is ostensibly over a merit-pay scheme, which would be at odds with Korean seniority-based traditions.
Mr. Thompson's plan bears some resemblance to merit-pay systems opposed by teachers unions in New York and elsewhere but it has differences, such as paying highly rated teachers more for taking on more challenging assignments.
The resulting contract, signed in fall 2009, garnered national attention for its brevity, just 10 pages, and its establishment of a merit-based pay scale instead of guaranteed annual pay raises, prompting charter school administrators to issue a press release.
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Reform has been vigorously opposed, perhaps most egregiously in education, where charter schools, vouchers, academies and merit pay all faced drawn-out battles.
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If the savings are as significant as to merit single-payer, such a plan should more than pay for itself.
In Newark, Mr. Christie helped usher in a form of teacher merit pay by shepherding contract talks between his hand-picked superintendent, Cami Anderson, and the Newark Teachers Union.
Policymakers have pushed mostly carrot-and-stick remedies: firing underperforming teachers, giving merit pay to high performers, penalizing schools with poor student test scores.
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