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title: Exploring ProComp
description: "NEWS:Chalkbeat: How a once-promising merit pay system led Denver teachers to  strike"
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# [Exploring ProComp](https://blog.dsstpublicschools.org/helix/exploring-procomp)

 Written by [DSST Public Schools](https://blog.dsstpublicschools.org/helix/author/dsst-public-schools) | 02/07/19

Jeff Buck was the very first teacher to sign up for Denver’s revolutionary pay-for-performance system in 2005. More than 13 years later, he is one of a dozen teachers sitting in a conference room at an obscure school district building, trying to unravel what the system has become.

 

ProComp — “professional compensation” — was supposed to recognize and reward good teachers. It was hailed around the nation as a model for getting districts away from traditional pay structures that prize longevity more than results, and, remarkably, it had the support of Denver’s teachers union.

[Read the full article here.](https://chalkbeat.org/posts/co/2019/02/05/how-once-promising-merit-pay-system-procomp-led-denver-teachers-brink-strike/)

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