On Thursday a North Carolina State Board subcommittee will discuss more details on a controversial pilot program that will make North Carolina teachers in part subject to evaluations in order to get pay raises.

The pilot program framework, approved by the NCBOE and drafted by The Professional Educator Preparation and Standards Commission, would ultimately also change how teachers are licensed.

North Carolina would join only two other states which use a similar licensing system. Nonetheless, the proposed draft plans, as presented at past meetings, would make the state unique in its approach.

The proposal to overhaul how North Carolina teachers are licensed has many details, but a major component is at the center of the controversy.

It involves linking a teacher’s pay in part to the license they hold.

“We have forces that are pulling against each other in terms of how people are coming into the profession now in the early licensure components,” Van Dempsey, The Professional Educator Preparation and Standards Commission Chairman, said at a November meeting.