Sentences with phrase «raised teacher salaries from»

Raised teacher salaries from 36th in the nation to 1st — you probably would have voted against it.

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The Union has written to the Home Secretary to call for teachers to be exempted from proposals to raise the minimum salary threshold for migrant workers.

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.

April 20, 2018 • The governor's plan to raise teachers» salaries by 20 percent is meeting with resistance from critics who say it is unrealistic.

Legislators raised teacher contributions to the pension plan from 8 percent of salary to 14.5 percent today.

A task force appointed by Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano has recommended that the state raise its average starting teacher salary from $ 28,000 to $ 35,000, a hike of 25 percent.

The extra money he raises from the private sector will help to improve school facilities, buy better equipment, and perhaps even raise teacher salaries.

And when the district recently made public the average teacher salary increases under the new pact — ranging from 2.5 percent to 4 percent per year — it didn't include what can be lucrative raises given to educators who earn master's degrees and other graduate credits.

With teachers» last pay raise dating back to early 2007, the union says a salary hike is long overdue, especially since last fall's voter - approved Prop. 30 increased the per - student funds the district receives from the state.

Beginning teachers would see their starting base pay bumped up from $ 33,000 to $ 35,000 — making good on a promise made to teachers last year when GOP lawmakers said they'd raise starting teacher pay up over a two year period from a career - entry salary of $ 30,800 to $ 35,000.

About $ 50 million of a 2010 gift from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg helped pay for provisions in the five - year contract, including higher base salaries for all Newark teachers plus annual raises for teachers who are rated well under a new evaluation system.

From low starting salaries, to capped raises, to a lack of opportunity for income growth, teachers indicate they seek higher earnings beyond the classroom.»

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.

In public schools we spend over a third of our budget on teacher salaries, yet we tend to view teacher compensation as a separate issue from raising student achievement.

N.C. Rep. Craig Horn, an influential budget writer from Union County who chairs the House education appropriations committee, isn't sure he likes the current salary scale for teachers, the one adopted by lawmakers two years ago that nixes annual raises for teachers in favor of a multi-tiered approach with bigger pay bumps every five years.

The district announced Thursday that teachers will receive 9 percent raises, with the salary for first - year educators increased from $ 39,954 to $ 43,887.

They also won $ 40 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in a national grant competition to spend on software and consultants, hiring staff, and raising teacher salaries.

``... if pay were more aligned with both effectiveness and experience, it would be quite possible to see overall salaries of teachers raised significantly from current levels — reflecting their enormous impact on students, on the incomes of students and on economic growth.»

She threw out a lot of ideas that met eager applause, from raising teacher salaries to reducing the role of standardized testing, to creating universal preschool for every child.

Earlier that decade, in 1953, a bill was introduced in the State Legislature to raise the legal minimum teacher salary from $ 2,400 (annually) to $ 3,000.

The teachers are seeking pay raises to bring them up from 48th in the nation on teacher salaries.

No problem — give them the great news about the two GOP governors who are leading the way to raise teacher salaries out of the swamp from which they just finished lowering them.

Or offer up this tasty tidbit from Public Impact that shows states and districts how to raise teacher salaries by 20 to 130 percent with the money they have now.