The Virginia school board on Thursday approved the governor’s teacher merit-pay plan — even though local districts failed to do the same.

Called “Guidelines for Uniform Performance Standards and Evaluation Criteria for Teachers,” the $3 million plan calls for districts to base 40 percent of teacher evaluations on their students’ test score gains.

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