Participating districts will have to use the evaluations to make
decisions about teacher pay and retention, although it's unclear at this point exactly how that will work.
Includes articles on becoming a classroom teacher, special education teacher, school principal or counselor, as well as general
information about teacher pay.
By shutting unions out of
discussions about teacher pay and performance, districts risk losing a key partner in developing and carrying out education reforms, some say.
The
decision about teacher pay is coming up with money to give many veteran teachers not a salary increase, but merely a $ 750 bonus.
State Schools Superintendent Mark Johnson says raising teacher pay and resolving the K - 3 class size issue are major priorities in a video released less than a week after he made controversial
comments about teacher pay.
At the March 2013 meeting of the NC State Board of Education, board members heard a startling
report about teacher pay that showed that North Carolina now ranks 46th in the nation in how much teachers are paid.
The ASCL has joined forces with other associations in writing to Education Secretary Justine
Greening about the teacher pay problems, and why it urgently needs to be addressed.
That's a central idea of a
paper about teacher pay released today by the teacher advocacy group Educators 4 Excellence.
Governor Pat McCrory and legislative leaders are hoping you just look at the headlines this
week about teacher pay and don't actually read the stories about their education plan or talk to your child's teacher about it.
I used to be Chair of Governors of a large primary school, outside London weighted area, so I know
about teacher pay scales.
Because discussions
about teacher pay rarely reference these data, the policy debate on education reform has proceeded without a clear understanding of these issues.
Check out the summary of our «A Fairer Share: A Conversation
about Teacher Pay in Denver» event here.
Included: Baraquio
talks about teacher pay, who inspired her to become a teacher, and being the first Asian American to wear the Miss America crown!
Professor Marty West mentions that largely lost in the
debate about teacher pay, meanwhile, is that state education budgets are increasingly being allocated to the rising costs of health care and pensions, putting downward pressure on salaries.
The organization angered some conservatives last month when it broke tradition by announcing that it would not invite the state's Republican Superintendent of Public Instruction, Mark Johnson, to the organization's annual convention in March following Johnson's controversial
comments about teacher pay.
Typically absent in these
discussions about teacher pay, however, is any reference to systematic data on how much public school teachers are actually paid, especially relative to other occupations.
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About Teacher Pay, Class Size (The Washington Post)