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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.rhodeislandvotes.org/forum/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Economy</title><link>http://www.rhodeislandvotes.org/forum/forums/9.aspx</link><description>Regulation, Labor, Professions, Energy, Communications, Business Subsidies</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2008 (Debug Build: 30417.1769)</generator><item><title>Re: 2009 House Resolution 5724 (Requesting a study of performance-based teacher compensation)</title><link>http://www.rhodeislandvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/2727.aspx</link><pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 16:45:44 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">54d28d32-efc9-49e4-96a8-a51a55e84e67:2727</guid><dc:creator>hammerman54</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.rhodeislandvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/2727.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.rhodeislandvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=9&amp;PostID=2727</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;This is LONG OVERDUE.&amp;nbsp; Teachers do not strive to improve or keep up standards of teaching and our children and the taxpayers suffer because of it.&amp;nbsp; We raised two children and saw great teachers until they get to the high school level where the grades count to get into colleges (which they both did).&amp;nbsp; However, they were not taught in a way, even though they were in accelarated college courses, to be able to survived in the higher education world nor were they taught the very basics of Math.&amp;nbsp; We were told this by the Dean of the West Point Prep School.&amp;nbsp; Our child was not taught the basic skills of Math and to tell the School Dept. this.&amp;nbsp; They laughed in my face.&amp;nbsp; The teachers were not even there most of the time.&amp;nbsp; She went on with tutoring at that leve to graduate West Point and serve in the Army until she left after 10 plus years of service as a Captain.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is a lesson folks.................&amp;nbsp; Test the teachers as much, if not more, than the students.&amp;nbsp; The students can only learn as much as they are taught.&amp;nbsp; Pensions and more pay won&amp;#39;t fix that.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="clear:both;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description></item><item><title>2009 House Resolution 5724 (Requesting a study of performance-based teacher compensation)</title><link>http://www.rhodeislandvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/2726.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2001 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">54d28d32-efc9-49e4-96a8-a51a55e84e67:2726</guid><dc:creator>admin</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.rhodeislandvotes.org/forum/forums/thread/2726.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.rhodeislandvotes.org/forum/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=9&amp;PostID=2726</wfw:commentRss><description>Introduced in the House on February 26, 2009&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href='http://www.rhodeislandvotes.org/2009-HR-5724'&gt;Click here to view bill details.&lt;/a&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>