No.Va. schools wary of teacher pilot program Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell rolled out his teacher merit pay plan Tuesday, inviting 57 districts with “hard-to-staff” schools to apply for a chunk of $3 million in state funding for the 2011-12 school year.

But Northern Virginia districts met the governor with blank stares, as Fairfax and Arlington County officials said their schools were not necessarily “hard to staff,” and some districts echewed the Virginia Performance-Pay Incentives Initiative, which would attach students’ test scores to teacher evaluations.