A comment above indicated that the criterion is the teachers’ test scores at the time the teachers’ were applying for college. I suspect the intention was to have some kind of objective factor to consider. Evaluations are subjective, and most teachers get “Outstanding!” results every year. Teachers do not like being evaluated based on students’ results; reasonably, they contend that too many factors are involved in student outcomes to make one year’s results a determinant of compensation. Maybe some kind of “rolling 5-year average” would be informative, but it wouldn’t work for the least experienced teachers.
Where’d that extra apostrophe come from? I know ... cats!
That would be a very long-tail, unanticipated side-effect of a teacher's high school SAT performance. Not to mention that the tests have changed over the years (reports say scoring is easier).
And, from what I've seen of must education majors, the race would be among at-best mediocre performers.