Sentences with phrase «city teacher salary»

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New teachers in Chicago earn $ 50,000 per year, but given the high cost of living in the city, that salary means she's just getting by.

A few years ago we could not get teachers to teach in the city of Hull and had to give them an enhanced salary to do it.

In the Syracuse City School District during that period, teachers» salaries rose 4 percent annually for the first four years, dropped to a 2.25 percent increase in 2012 and 2 percent in both 2013 and 2014.

Percoco in his filing also reported that his wife, Lisa Toscano - Percoco, a one - time New York City school teacher, received a salary of between $ 75,000 and $ 100,000 from a mysterious entity called Chris Pitts LLC.

Meanwhile Toscano - Percoco, a former New York City teacher, began in 2012 receiving a salary from a mysterious company - Chris Pitts LLC that is said to be tied to CPV Valley Energy Center, which is building a controversial power plant in Orange County and needs state approvals.

According to the mayor, the state budget reduced education spending next year by $ 1.2 billion, while the city also lost $ 850 million in federal stimulus money that's used to support teachers» salaries.

The teachers» union, for example, have agreed to a contract without a salary increase for the first year and a half, while superior officers have assented to keeping their pay flat for 11 months — «zeroes» in public employee parlance, unacceptable to Mr. Lynch, whose members are among the lowest paid big - city cops in the country.

In the city budget, savings came from removing more than $ 900 million reserved from Mayor Michael Bloomberg's original spending plan for teacher salary raises of 4 percent.

In New York City, for example, a teacher might choose her current contract and a $ 65,000 salary, or the alternative employment terms with a $ 90,000 salary but with no tenure guarantees.

A monthlong teacher strike in Michigan City, Ind., ended late last month after union leaders and administrators reached an agreement on a three - year contract that provides teachers with a 6 - percent salary increase next year and 5 - percent raises in each of the following years.

Himself whip - smart and politically savvy, Brill made instant news when he took on the city's teachers union in a 2009 New Yorker story about the city's notorious «rubber rooms,» where bad teachers went to soak up full salaries while doing nothing.

Operating across eight locations, the award - winning Me & MyCity 6th Grade program includes teacher training and learning resources for 10 lessons, followed by a visit to a miniature city where students work in their chosen profession and learn more about being a consumer and citizen, including banking, voting... and spending their hard - earned salary!

Besides challenging seniority - based layoffs, the shortage of experienced math and science teachers in inner - city districts — a problem that single salary schedules make worse — could inspire a lawsuit.

We also find that the crisis was certainly not due to excessive spending relative to that of surrounding districts (see sidebar titled Philadelphia Support for Education for details on city support, charter school enrollments, district spending, and teacher salaries).

Last year, for every $ 1 the city paid in teacher salaries, it put $ 0.36455 into the city's pension plan.

The floodgates of a longstanding debate were reopened recently when a group of New York City parents raised $ 46,000 to pay the salary of a laid off teacher.

Driven by news of shortages in certain subjects (such as math, science, and special education) and in rural and inner - city schools, state legislatures have earmarked billions of dollars for salary increases and teacher training.

Brian Jacob and Lars Lefgren find no relationship between teachers» pay and their performance in a mid-sized, western school district (see «When Principals Rate Teachers,» research, page 58); and Eric Hanushek, Steven Rivkin, and Daniel O'Brien, in a 2005 working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, report no relationship between teacher productivity and changes in pay, suggesting that surrounding districts do not pull the most effective teachers from the city by offering higher steachers» pay and their performance in a mid-sized, western school district (see «When Principals Rate Teachers,» research, page 58); and Eric Hanushek, Steven Rivkin, and Daniel O'Brien, in a 2005 working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, report no relationship between teacher productivity and changes in pay, suggesting that surrounding districts do not pull the most effective teachers from the city by offering higher sTeachers,» research, page 58); and Eric Hanushek, Steven Rivkin, and Daniel O'Brien, in a 2005 working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research, report no relationship between teacher productivity and changes in pay, suggesting that surrounding districts do not pull the most effective teachers from the city by offering higher steachers from the city by offering higher salaries.

It didn't matter whether the teacher was working in a rural school in the south west or an inner city school in the north east, the national pay scale ensured that every good teacher teaching broadly similar groups of children would receive an equivalent salary.

One of the teachers is hired to work at New York City school experimenting with a model that allows it to pay low - six - figure salaries, but the approach is inexplicably left unclarified.

As we read that school teachers in major cities are finding it hard to afford housing on their current salaries, one suspects that many, given the option, might leap for higher pay.

Miller briefly relates the tale of the $ 2 billion court - ordered desegregation plan in the mid-1980s for Kansas City, in which teachers» salaries were raised, class sizes slashed, and beautiful facilities created.

With the city of Philadelphia facing severe financial problems, a program that boosts salaries for some senior teachers in the city school district — at a cost totaling up to $ 16 million this school year — is raising some eyebrows.

In 1977, the city's teachers staged a 19 - day strike over salary.

But California starting salaries fail to provide a starting living wage for today's newer teachers in view of the realities faced by those teachers, including the hugely increased cost of gaining an education and the dramatically increased cost of housing, especially big city housing.

Among other reforms encouraged by Race to the Top, Washington, D.C., adopted a new teacher contract that raised salaries across the board while adding performance pay, and New York City increased its allotment of public charter schools, to cite just two notable examples.

Within the education field, some cities faced with rising pension costs are already laying off teachers and freezing salaries.

The Boston Teachers Union reached an agreement last week with city officials on a new salary schedule for teachers, breaking an eight - month deadlock over how to finance the education reforms the contract pTeachers Union reached an agreement last week with city officials on a new salary schedule for teachers, breaking an eight - month deadlock over how to finance the education reforms the contract pteachers, breaking an eight - month deadlock over how to finance the education reforms the contract promises.

But now, saying the city can not afford expenditures like the $ 150 million it spent on salaries and benefits for those in the reserve in the last school year, the education department plans to place roughly 400 teachers in classrooms full time, possibly permanently.

Members of the United Teachers - Los Angeles last week voted overwhelmingly to authorize their board of directors to call a strike if union leaders are unable to negotiate a salary agreement with the city's school board.

The Equity Project made headlines in 2008 when it announced it would pay nearly double the average salary of teachers in the city's district schools.

A small New York City charter school opened five years ago with an attention - grabbing premise: Paying teachers $ 125,000 salaries would lure ace faculty and help poor children learn.

Ask Michael Tini, 54, who works as a card dealer in Atlantic City, about teacher salaries and benefits and he taps his head, not unsympathetically.

This is a much less incremental approach than the assumptions North Carolina uses, which makes it even more obvious that New York City's salary bumps at years 10, 13, 15, 18, 20, and 22 are not doing enough to shape teacher behavior to warrant adjusting the pension plan's assumptions.

In New York City, the 2008 starting salary for teachers was $ 45,530, whereas entry - level PR professionals earned a median salary of $ 53,139 and financial analysts earned $ 57,442 in their first year.

An innovative teachers contract designed to tie pay to performance has given Baltimore's teachers some of the best salaries in the state — but it's also expensive for the city school system.

Salaries in Hawaii are competitive with large mainland cities because schools in the islands generally have to pay more to attract quality teachers.

Teacher salaries have been on the rise throughout northern Utah, including Park City where new teachers will now be paid over $ 50,000 a year.

(The average teacher salary in the city is $ 49,000.)

While the city has stepped up its funding for schools, state and federal dollars have not kept up with rising costs, including health care, transportation, cost of living adjustments and teacher salaries.

Last week, Mayor Bloomberg proposed a $ 20,000 base salary increase for any New York City teacher deemed highly effective for two years in a row.

The Chapel Hill - Carrboro City Schools already offer higher salaries to teachers with 25 years of experience, but new teachers also could see a boost in pay if they agree to additional duties or participate in extra professional development.

In the paper, E4E proposes that the city continue to cover the salaries and benefits of teachers for up to two years after they lost their position.

Teachers in the Windy City are obligated by law to contribute 9 percent of their salaries to their retirement.

We've heard great ideas about how to change this from educators across the city: pay raises for mentor teachers and teachers who assume administrative responsibilities while still in the classroom, incentives to teach in high - needs areas and low - performing schools and salary steps based on fair evaluations.

Currently, city teachers earn a starting salary of $ 45,530 and see their pay rise in small increments each year and as they accumulate additional credentials such as a master's degree.

Not only are TFA recruits paid at regular teacher salary levels, but in return for supplying the Teach for America recruits, Vallas committed the City of Bridgeport to pay TFA a «fee» of «$ 3,000 per year for the first two years a teacher is employed.

Below are Iowa's three largest cities — Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, and Davenport — and their teacher salaries from May 2011.

The average salary for a teacher with a bachelor's degree in rural Arizona is $ 33,550 annually, while urban cities like Phoenix report the highest salaries at $ 38,828 annually.

The Park City School District last year brought in nearly 40 new employees and adjusted teacher salaries with an across - the - board increase of $ 7,000, resulting in a budget spike of about $ 3.4 million for this year, which was discussed at Tuesday's school board meeting, along with master planning and potential bond issues.