Sentences with phrase «address teacher compensation»

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It appears that education policies related to both compensation and working conditions must evolve further if school systems are to address the challenge of staffing math and science classrooms with teachers of strong academic caliber.

While increasing numbers of school districts offer pay incentives to address math and science staff shortages, the authors conclude that «compensation and working conditions must evolve further if school systems are to address the challenge of staffing math and science classrooms with teachers of strong academic caliber.»

They also need to remember, however, that standard compensation packages really don't address the reasons most teachers teach.

Another letter, issued by a coalition called the Education Equality Project, advocated addressing school system failures through greater accountability, school choice, and changes in compensation that would promote teacher quality.

And there are tough policy issues — teacher turnover, measurement of teacher effectiveness, varying teacher career paths, variable pay and incentives — that must be addressed in a comprehensive compensation package.

To retain teachers, the Forum recommended that Mississippi legislators address the issues of appropriate compensation for educators.

It does not address the changes we need to see in teacher compensation, the organization of the school day, the role of instructional leadership, and a range of other key factors crucial to getting the teacher - quality equation right in a workforce of 3,000,000 facing 200,000 teacher hires a year, due to high rates of turnover and mounting retirements.

It addresses the importance of empowering schools rather than mandating school improvement through legislation, as well as comments on issues of teacher compensation.

Dammeier said delaying work on the teacher compensation issue until the Legislature is scheduled to reconvene in January would be a bad idea — partly, he said, because lawmakers» short 60 - day session in 2016 doesn't allow much time to address such a complex issue.

Although a wealth of literature addresses performance - based compensation systems for teachers and their effects on student achievement, the best evidence to date comes from other countries and may not apply to the US K — 12 education system (Rand, 2009).

If we want to attract and retain the teachers our children deserve, we need our compensation system to address the reality of the classroom: teaching is not a profession for the unambitious or the goal - shy.

Just over a decade ago Denver started to address the amount of resources available for teacher compensation; voters approved the Professional Compensation System for Teachers, or ProComp, a $ 25 million annual property tax increase that promised to make major changes to how Denver Public School teachecompensation; voters approved the Professional Compensation System for Teachers, or ProComp, a $ 25 million annual property tax increase that promised to make major changes to how Denver Public School teacheCompensation System for Teachers, or ProComp, a $ 25 million annual property tax increase that promised to make major changes to how Denver Public School teachers aTeachers, or ProComp, a $ 25 million annual property tax increase that promised to make major changes to how Denver Public School teachers ateachers are paid.

«Efforts to improve preschool teacher qualifications will largely be in vain until the problem of inadequate compensation and lack of parity with kindergarten and the primary grades is addressed,» Dr. Barnett said.

«While new Illinois law prohibits us from striking over the recall of laid - off teachers and compensation for a longer school year, we do not intend to sign an agreement until these matters are addressed.

We must first address the root causes of the shortage — poor working conditions, inadequate compensation structures, a lack of administrative and community support for teachers and schools, and invalid and unreliable teacher evaluation systems that are driving the most talented and experienced teachers out of the classroom.

«It would have been open to the legislature when enacting the [Teachers] Act to address directly the issue of compensation for affected employees and to legislate the Crown out of the severance obligation,» he wrote.

Although three - quarters of Head Start teachers now have a bachelor's degree, they earn $ 31,242 annually — more than $ 20,000 less than the average kindergarten teacher salary.61 Likewise, the federal government should leverage Preschool Development Grants and any subsequent federal preschool funding to encourage states to address compensation disparities within their public pre-K programs.