I'd like to apologise to my readers...

... for suggesting in February that it might take up to a year for Michael Gove to start paying teachers for their results, when it was announced yesterday by the School Teachers' Pay Review Body that salary rises would from now on be based on performance in the classroom.

And you know what, most heads I know are sympathetic to that approach.  Note that Russell Hobby, the leader of the National Association of Head Teachers says that it's balanced and reasonable (but he made it clear that NAHT are against regional variation in pay).

Other unions complain that children and young people will suffer.  It will be interesting to observe what actually happens.