The Center for American Progress “found several common trends in charter and private schools that differ significantly from pay experiments in traditional public schools: (1)Strict salary schedules play a much smaller role in charter and private schools in determin­ing teachers’ base pay. Many charter and private schools do not use a schedule at all, and even those that do tend to use it as a starting point rather than the sole determinant of teachers’ pay. (2) Charter and private schools are more likely than district schools to tie some portion of teachers’ pay to performance, and a significant number also use higher pay to fill hard-to-staff positions. (3) Charter and private schools also make much greater use of non-financial rewards than district schools to draw and keep the best teachers.”

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