Sentences with phrase «most teacher contracts»

Most teacher contracts had long required districts to provide expensive health - insurance plans through the union - backed WEA Trust.

Most teacher contracts provide a substantial salary bump, upwards of $ 10,000 per year in some cases, to a teacher who earns a master's degree, despite the fact that on average such degrees have no correlation with increased student achievement.

By freeing up the schools from the central office bureaucracy and most teacher contract provisions, local and state officials say, the Springfield middle schools are in complete control of their curriculums, staffing, budgeting, and ultimately their own destinies.

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And, most important for those who intend on starting their own contracting business, understanding and learning from your past mistakes will make you a better teacher of new employees; the result will be that your business is more productive, successful and profitable.

Note the average teacher salary is not available for most charter schools because staff are employed by a charter - school management company and fall into the category of contract employees.

The most recent teachers - union contract expired in October 2009, although its terms have remained in effect ever since.

In one of her most significant actions as state education commissioner, MaryEllen Elia has granted Buffalo Superintendent Kriner Cash unprecedented power to make changes at the district's most struggling schools, bypassing the teachers union contract and sparking a likely court battle.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia's ruling that Superintendent Kriner Cash can circumvent the union contract to make changes at receivership schools will likely end in a court battle with one of the most powerful teachers unions in the country.

But School districts face rising costs for employee health care, pensions and annual longevity, or «step» raises for teachers that are built into most union contracts.

Voters opposed to fracking, and certain public employee unions unhappy with their contracts and teacher evaluations were the most motivated in this primary.»

Under the so - called Triborough Amendment, most teachers continue getting raises even after a contract expires - which gives the unions little incentive to consider givebacks at the bargaining table.

In an exchange that may have given Mr. Flanagan his opening, another Senate Republican, John DeFrancisco, asked the mayor about the back pay being given to the city's teachers under the most recent contract.

Perhaps the most significant shift will be how the board approaches its negotiations with the Buffalo Teachers Federation, which is working under a contract that expired more than a decade ago.

Our actual adversaries in the action were the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) and the Buffalo Teachers Federation (BTF) who despised my disclosure of incompetence and criminality in the negotiation and approval of the most recent teacher contract which left the Buffalo Schools virtually bankrupt.

The rising costs, the Center noted, are in part attributable to built - in automatic STEP or longevity pay raises built into most teachers» contracts.

The leak most mentioned in court is contained in an Artvoice newspaper article Paladino wrote after the board reached a contract with the teacher's union

But acknowledging any such obvious fact would sweep the support from under the fixed salary ladders that are the basis for teacher contracts in most districts.

While procedures for removing tenured teachers for «just cause» appear in most contracts, the available procedures are so burdensome that they are rarely used.

If that's true, it's probable that schools with the highest - need students (who traditionally have the least - experienced faculty) would be most likely to convert over to the new contract, and might thereby be able to attract higher - performing teachers.

In fourth and fifth grades, most Enota teachers design learning contracts, weekly activity charts that offer a menu of activities based on varying intelligences, for their students.

He was also penalized by one of the most senseless clauses in the teachers» contract.

Teachers in Horace Mann charter schools must belong to the local union, but they may be subject to a thin contract that waives most of the provisions not associated with compensation.

In a sudden shift in negotiating positions last week, officials of the Los Angeles Unified School District and the United Teachers - Los Angeles agreed to table the two most controversial issues in their current contract talks, apparently averting the possibility of a strike that would affect 550,000 students, according to district officials.

The final report on the Early Reading First program, conducted by outside researchers under contract to the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education, found the program has had the most significant effect in improving classroom activities and materials, as well as teacher practices related to literacy development.

In 2003 schools chancellor Joel Klein appointed her and the project, through a no - bid three - year $ 5.4 million contract, to the task of revamping the way literacy skills are taught in more than 100 district schools, including most of those in Brooklyn and Queens, the project's mission is to retrain — through onsite workshops, leadership seminars, curricular materials, and an intensive summer institute — primary and upper - grade teachers, administrators from principals up through district superintendents, and central department policymakers.

Teacher groups went after and won most of the schools, with some opting for the pilot model, embracing the idea of autonomy with all the trappings, «except a thin labor contract,» Hill said.

Most obviously, union contracts and civil service rules make it next to impossible to fire low - performers, whether they be central office bureaucrats, principals, teachers, or aides.

But the chickens have come home to roost: if teachers are the most important part of the process, and we have been rewarding them nicely, signing on to 100 - page employment contracts, dishing out wonderful lifetime benefits, why has our education system gotten so bad?

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Most everyone, from those who believe that teachers should earn more, so that the profession attracts the best and the brightest, to those who believe that union contracts are bankrupting American schools, while also leading to poorer educational outcomes, agrees that there is something wrong with the way our educators are paid.

Unions mediate much of the fiscal contract and most of the psychological contract between teachers and school districts.

In the K — 12 world, however, tenure remains the norm for public school teachers in the district sector, vouchsafed in most places by state law and big - time politics, as well as local contracts, even in so - called «right to work» states.

JH: Yes, well you've got the attraction / retention, you're right, and also you've got the experience base — again, typically in Australia we've sent our least experienced teachers to some of our most challenging remote schools contexts, with the promise of permanency or a long - term contract or something as an incentive, so you've got that.

Their most effective strategy — working with superintendents to create far more high - performing traditional schools that would lure parents away from charters — might require dramatic changes to teachers» contracts that unions have spent decades winning.

There's no doubt that public education is among the most unionized industries in the United States, with more than 60 percent of teachers working under a union contract.

Most teachers belong to unions and are paid on the «contract scale,» but many receive additional compensation for longer days and extra duties.

Notably, while most teachers in traditional public schools are tenured and have multiyear contracts, 96 percent of charter teachers in their study were either at - will employees or had annual contracts; thus charters can and do separate ineffective teachers.

The Ministry of Education and the unions still negotiate the national collective contract that determines pay and conditions for most teachers.

It is not only the regulatory environment that founders must directly challenge, but the entire sweep of policies, practices, and pedagogies, from federal law to local union contracts, from teacher preparation programs to the design of mainstream textbooks, that together define how most public schools today function.

Yet, seniority is the single most expensive teacher - contract provision.

Unlike charter schools, however, pilot schools remain part of the Boston school district and their teachers are BTU members covered by most contract provisions related to pay and seniority.

This work will require different types of union contracts and compensation that pay more to teachers in shortage areas like math and science and disproportionally increase salaries for the early career teachers and principals in high need schools who are most likely to leave the profession.

The superintendent's HR office does most of the vetting and placing, but it is shackled by the contract, by state licensure practices (which may be set by an «independent» — and probably union and ed - school dominated — professional - standards board), by seniority rules that are probably enshrined in both contract and state law, and by uniform salary schedules that mean the new teacher (assuming similar «credentials») will be paid the same fixed amount whether the subject most needed at Lincoln is math or music.

Within the span of one year, all public - school employees were fired, the teacher contract expired and was not replaced, and most attendance zones were eliminated.

Students with the greatest challenges at home need the most effective teachers to help them rise above their circumstances, yet the outmoded laws, regulations and union contracts governing New York's schools do nothing to put a premium on teacher quality.

It seems most of what they do now is get more money for teachers as they bargain away all the protections... with the excuse of «this is the way it IS»... or «this is the new wave, you can not fight it»... or «it's not in the contract.»

Of the three autonomy models, pilots are the most flexible option because their teachers, though still represented by UTLA, must sign an «elect - to - work» contract that requires them to put in more hours on the job and participate in supplementary career training.

But critics of the contracts say that most teachers who do not perform well are encouraged to leave rather than outright fired, distorting the data available to decision makers.

As a Physical Education teacher by choice I also have certification in Biology and General science two high needs areas I have reservations about individual contract negotiations and Tiered salary from the outside it would benefit core subject teachers Math, Science, Special ed with increased salary opportunities but mostly as any Corporate structure would do is pare back on other subject area salaries the non core subjects this could create a situation inwhich some teachers would carry more burden than others and whether we like it or not the most memorable classes for many students are art, gym, music and home economics because of their practical applications in life.

In most districts, policy calls for teachers» contracts to be automatically renewed.