Quality Teacher Education Act: Attracting and Retaining the Best Teachers
The Quality Teacher and Education Act, approved in 2008, makes San Francisco teacher salaries competitive with those in surrounding school districts; provides financial incentives for teachers to work at schools with historically high turnover and teach in hard-to-fill subject areas such as high school math; increases teacher support while raising teacher accountability; improves academic innovation through research and development; and upgrades school technologies.
Policy Analysis for California Education and the Center for Education Policy Analysis at Stanford have documented the development of the parcel tax and performed an evaluation of the first year of implementation. Links to their papers on QTEA are listed below.