The foundation and others have estimated that it could cost between 1.5% and 2% of the overall budget for teacher compensation and benefits to implement a feedback and evaluation system based on multiple measures of teaching performance.
This year, analyst feedback prompted us to apply a revenue multiple of 3.5, in between that of FactSet, the highly profitable financial data firm (approx 5 x sales), and slightly sluggish Thomson Reuters, a direct competitor (just under 2 x sales).