The promise of more money has not exactly sent school districts in Minnesota rushing to embrace Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s widely touted Q Comp performance-pay plan for teachers. After three years, in ...

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Teachers and district officials in the Minnetonka School District are struggling to come up with a way to meet state standards to qualify for Q-Comp, an alternative way of compensating teachers based ...

Hutchinson’s New Discoveries Montessori Academy is among 23 more charter schools and seven school districts approved to use the Q Comp program, Gov. Tim Pawlenty said earlier this month. Pawlenty ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP)-- Seven school districts and 23 charter schools are joining Minnesota's alternative system for evaluating and paying teachers -- the signature education initiative under Gov. Tim ...

GRAND MEADOW — The latest batch of state math and reading scores will net Grand Meadow's teachers some of the bonus money they negotiated into their contract as part of the state's Q Comp program.

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ANOKA, Minn. (AP) -- The state's largest school district, Anoka-Hennepin, is a step closer to joining the state's alternative system for evaluating and paying teachers, called Q Comp. District ...

In 2005, Pawlenty made the alternative pay initiative -- known as Q Comp -- one of his education priorities. Legislators that year approved $78 million for the pilot program within a $12 billion ...

Teachers in Mankato Area Public Schools have rejected the district’s Q Comp application. Robin Courrier, president of the Mankato Teachers Association, said that during the two days of balloting this ...