Actually, if raises were based on performance (student outcomes), they deserve a sizable pay cut.
I use to have this belief as well. But have two family members in public education. The problem is the system that rewards failure and actually discourages success and achievement.
More specifically, how to you hold accountable an 11 or 12 grade teacher for the performance of his/her student when they have been given a group of students reading at 6th grade level due to the students total lack of interest, poor discipline, disinterested parents and the institutions pervasive social promotion policies?
The system of public education is rotten to the core. Ripe for financial abuse, patronage, and political manipulation. The delivered product, educated children ready for productive lives, is of little interest to the system.
I don’t have a simple solution. System needs to be burned to the ground and returned exclusively to local control.