New Oakland School Chief Pushes For Big Raises For Teachers

Oakland Unified School District Superintendent Antwan Wilson says that he's "dead serious" about "finding ways to pay [teachers] more," according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Specifically, he's looking to give teachers a 10 percent raise over the next three years, the newspaper reported, with "incentive pay" in store for teachers who work in the toughest schools.

He's looking to increase the graduation rate from 67 percent to 85 percent, and increase the fluency of English learners from 7 percent to 50 percent, according to the newspaper.

So far, the "ambitious" plan is just that -- a plan, the newspaper reported, with no details on "how" it would be achieved beyond "hard work and sacrifice," Wilson told the newspaper.