The survey, conducted by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NfER) on behalf of the trust, asked teachers for their views on proposals in the government’s Education Bill.
These include plans to make it easier for schools to dismiss staff and to introduce pay flexibilities to reward high performing teachers.
Researchers found that 73 per cent of senior leaders and 52 per cent of classroom teachers think schools currently have too little power to dismiss substandard staff.
Only 21 per cent of teachers believe that schools have sufficient clout in this area.
Opinion was more divided on plans to extend pay flexibilities, with half of teachers saying schools should be able to offer pay incentives of up to £10,000 to recruit and retain effective teachers, but more than 30 per cent of teachers were opposed to this idea.
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