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Tried paying the current teachers more, or undergoing a concentrated effort to evaluate current teachers against a baseline and aggressively court and hire at competitive wages teachers who have a track record of being better than the teachers that you have at that baseline?

I ask 'cause while I know nothing about Chicago, I've found that what you said always comes up with regard to the former.




You can't just fix something with more money. Analogously, it would be like fixing a soup with too much salt by pouring in more water and sour cream, might work, might not.


Yes, that was my point, thank you for repeating it.


total agreement, how do we fix it?




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