Sentences with phrase «teachers health insurance»

He proposed cutting $ 70 million in state contributions to the Retired Teachers Health Insurance Fund.

In this study, we examine BLS data to compare the costs to districts for teacher health insurance with similar costs to private - sector employers.

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He also has affordable health insurance in retirement because his wife, who was a public school teacher, was allowed to buy into her health insurance.

[74] In 2008, Corzine approved a law that increased the retirement age from 60 to 62, required that government workers and teachers earn $ 7,500 per year to qualify for a pension, eliminated Lincoln's Birthday as a state worker holiday, allowed the state to offer incentives not to take health insurance and required municipal employees work 20 hours per week to get health benefits.

Our Archbishop has stated: If the provisions for contraceptives and abortions are not removed, the Archdiocese will no longer provide health insurance benefits to any of its employees, including over 1800 school teachers.

Proposed by one of the teachers, Jörg Holler, the project was supported by ProVeg Deutschland (formerly VEBU, German's Vegetarian Association) and the health insurance company BKK ProVita, under the aegis of their Pflanzenpower — Plant Power — campaign, part of an effort to help children understand the benefits of meat free eating.

Talk to the teacher, talk to the school, talk to your pediatrician to find out what services might be available through your health insurance or through school services.

We want someone to come to office to solve our problems, not somebody who sits in office and says I am a Northern President so I am going to let them steal your SADA money, cancel your Teacher and Nursing Training Allowances, collapse the National Health Insurance Scheme and not provide any services for your socio - economic advancement; that is not the type of Northern President we want.

Harry Nespoli, chairman of the city's labor coalition, suggested letting New York apply some of the $ 400 million of unused cash from the union health - insurance fund to pay for teachers who would be fired under the mayor's $ 65.7 billion spending plan.

The Educational Conference Board, a coalition of school boards, teachers unions, and school administrators, say the state's schools need and additional $ 1.5 billion next year just to keep up with rising costs like health insurance premiums and pensions.

Citing stances the Senators have taken detrimental to the cause of working people, the flyers highlight: Protecting a failed tax system that favors the privileged at the expense of working people; increasing the tax on health insurance; siding with big corporations and against teachers and students to pass a Charter School Bill - with no real reform; creating a new Tier V pension; and attacking education by supporting an irresponsible property tax cap.

The Educational Conference Board, a coalition of school boards, teachers unions and school administrators, said the state's schools need an additional $ 1.5 billion next year just to keep up with rising costs like health insurance premiums and pensions.

That offer is in addition to retirement benefits Riverhead teachers are already guaranteed through their union contract, which offers them either $ 40,000 or subsidized health insurance coverage.

We now know none of it will come from union concessions — e.g., teachers chipping in for their health - insurance premiums.

The Educational Conference Board, a coalition of school boards, teachers unions, and school administrators, say the state's schools need an additional $ 1.5 billion next year just to keep up with rising costs like health insurance premiums and pensions.

The union has said it would be willing to accept an agreement in which teachers pay a set amount, as opposed to a percentage, for their health insurance premiums.

In exchange, teachers would have to start paying 10 percent toward their health insurance premiums.

Since then, he has secured strong contracts that gave teachers raises along with other lucrative benefits, including fully covered health insurance.

The contract talks have been particularly tense in recent weeks as the two sides attempted to find common ground on the key issues of teacher salaries, work rules and health insurance.

«The NDC government can not pay the National health insurance, free maternal health, teacher and nursing trainees allowance, feeding grants, school feeding, contractors, youth employment among others so where is the money?

Costs of teacher pensions and health insurance are accelerating at a far higher rate, they noted.

Prior to the deficit reduction bill, WEA Trust, which is affiliated with Wisconsin's largest teachers union, dominated the market for health insurance for the state's school districts.

Recent changes to the contracts covering teachers and administrators saved the district about $ 9 million in retiree health insurance costs for this budget year.

* A contribution toward health insurance: Fully - paid health insurance is gone under the new contract, with teachers agreeing to pay a flat dollar amount.

According to the NCS Employee Benefit Survey (EBS), 87 percent of K — 12 teachers participate in a health insurance plan (medical, dental, vision, or prescription drug) through their employer, compared to 80 percent of private - sector professionals (our estimate, adjusting for the part - time percentage).

Because part - time workers are less likely than full - time workers to have health insurance from their employers, we adjust the private - sector comparison data to match the percentage of teachers who work full time.

Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) show that school district costs for teachers» health insurance rose at an average annual rate of 4 percent above inflation from 2004 to 2012.

The high - profile battle in Wisconsin over collective bargaining on public - sector benefits, as well as lower - profile battles in Ohio and Massachusetts, was to a great extent about health insurance costs for teachers.

These data do not separate health from other insurance costs (life and disability) for teachers, but these other components are small (approximately 5 percent of the total), so this does not significantly affect our results.

Equally important, differences in teacher union strength across states help explain the wide variation in employer and employee health - insurance costs.

Many public school districts (and some states) provide health insurance benefits for retired public school teachers.

To take a simple example, suppose two occupations, one of them teachers, have identical earnings and retirement benefits, but differ in health insurance benefits.

Low average daily wages, lack of health insurance and other benefits, and lack of due process — a substitute teacher does not enjoy the right to a fair hearing or a process of complaint resolution if he or she is reported for classroom infractions — contribute to critical nationwide substitute shortages and an overall decline in substitute teacher morale.

The West St. Paul - Mendota Heights - Eagan school district in Minnesota has been ordered by a Dakota County judge to pay the West St. Paul Federation of Teachers roughly $ 300,000 in damages for illegally reducing teachers» health - insurance bTeachers roughly $ 300,000 in damages for illegally reducing teachers» health - insurance bteachers» health - insurance benefits.

When faced with rising health - insurance premiums, the 5,300 - student district raised out - of - pocket expenses for teachers who chose a particular health - coverage plan.

Anyone working in the education industry can take out Travel Insurance with Teachers Health Fund, not just Teachers Health Fund members.

Teachers Health Fund Travel Insurance shares what its customers got up to on their 2013 holidays.

Travel insurance through Teachers Health Fund is available to anyone working in the education community.

The one thing all our customers had in common on their 2013 holidays was the peace of mind that Travel Insurance with Teachers Health Fund provides if things don't go to plan.

Additionally, the city of Hartford pays teachers» health insurance; offers a myriad of teaching options, including experimental programs and charter and magnet schools; and grants veteran teachers $ 100 annual bonuses for every year served.

Back in their classrooms after a nearly three - week strike that ended just before Thanksgiving, teachers in Billings, Mont., approved a hard - fought contract last week that will give them 2.5 percent pay raises and additional help with health insurance.

In some areas, competition over certified teachers has become so fierce that districts are promising signing bonuses, paid health insurance, subsidized housing, and more.

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

Although ACE provides many financial benefits — including the master's degree, room and board for two summer sessions, $ 400 in travel stipends each year plus airfare to and from the December retreat, and health insurance — ACE teachers are paid considerably less than a typical Catholic school salary.

Many, though not all, districts that had the opportunity to utilize the cost - cutting tools of Act 10 were able to reduce or eliminate debt thanks to a combination of employee contributions, teacher retirements, and health - insurance savings.

Wooden classrooms were built on the premises; teachers were hired; foam mattresses on the floor were replaced with bunk beds; fans were placed in each bedroom to decrease heat rashes and mosquito bites; health insurance was purchased for all the children; grey walls were painted colourfully; photos were spread throughout the bedrooms; seeds were purchased to help grow food; chickens were purchased to provide eggs; clothes were provided to break the hand - me - down cycle, and the children were all taught basic hygiene skills.

De Blasio could easily have paid for the $ 340 million pre-K expansion in the program's first year, and most of the ongoing cost in subsequent years, by requiring teachers and other city workers and retirees to contribute 10 percent to their health insurance premiums (amounting to nearly $ 550 million, according to the Independent Budget Office).

Unlike the teacher pension system, payments for retiree health insurance are typically pay - as - you - go (i.e., no employer fund is created to pay for these future liabilities).

On average, over the past 10 years, teacher salaries have increased 1.4 percent a year, compared with 4 percent for health insurance and 7.8 percent for retirement.

While most teachers have access to some sort of subsidized retiree health insurance, this benefit has all but disappeared in private sector firms.