Sentences with phrase «based on teacher salaries»

This was a significant departure from the traditional system of building school budgets based on teacher salaries, which gives more resources to schools with highly educated, veteran teachers regardless of the student populations they serve.

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President Barack Obama has expressed support for the policy of basing teachers» salaries, in part, on their students» academic progress on tests?

Fifty - seven percent of Americans support basing teacher salaries in part «on how much their students learn.»

Education took center stage in Iowa's 2006 legislative session, resulting in measures to boost teacher salaries, start a pilot program that bases teacher pay on student achievement, expand preschool, and establish statewide graduation requirements.

The new policy would have eventually based teachers» salaries in part on evaluations by the principal and a number of outside evaluators hired by the district.

Opposition to basing teacher salaries in part on student progress has grown from 27 percent to 39 percent over the past two years.

Based on our findings of what causes teachers to leave their schools, we calculated the salary increases that would be necessary to offset the effects of difficult working conditions in large urban versus suburban schools.

Virtually all teachers» collective bargaining agreements establish salary schedules based strictly on years of experience and accumulated graduate credits.

In an unprecedented move, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office brought criminal charges of grand theft last week against 43 public - school teachers who received salary increases based on fraudulently obtained college credits.

Current teacher pension plans back - load benefits to the last 5 to 10 years of service, mainly because benefit formulas are based on final average salary calculations that do not adjust for inflation.

• 57 % of the public supports basing teacher salaries in part «on how much their students learn,» while just 31 % opposes performance pay.

In summary, based on 1) no evidence of a salary penalty when controlling for AFQT rather than years of education, 2) job switchers receiving higher salaries as teachers than as nonteachers, and 3) public school teachers receiving higher salaries than private school teachers, we conclude that the standard regression is, at best, highly misleading.

Overall, public says teacher salaries and tenure should be based heavily on student test performance; public has less confidence in teachers than previously reported

And if older teachers opt to enter the ProComp program, they keep their old base salary; the ProComp program merely offers them a chance for bonuses on top of that old salary.

Yet, while many companies are changing their pay structures to reinforce workplace reforms, most teachers are still being paid based on a 75 - year - old salary structure that may be due for retirement.

Districts had to «allocate forty per cent of the monies for teacher compensation increases based on performance and employment related expenses, twenty per cent of the monies for teacher base salary increases and employment related expenses and forty per cent of the monies for maintenance and operation purposes.»

Merit Pay: When asked for an opinion straight out, a slight plurality of Americans sampled — 43 percent — supported the idea of «basing a teacher's salary, in part, on his or her students» academic progress on state tests.»

The state calculates the money associated with each teacher and instructional - support unit for every school based on four factors: the costs of teacher salaries, employee benefits, classroom support, and other current expenses.

Despite a recent wave of reform, the vast majority of school districts nationwide continue to pay teachers based on salary schedules that fail to differentiate among teachers based on their subject - area expertise.

EdNext: «Do you favor or oppose basing the salaries of teachers, in part, on their students» academic progress on state tests?»

Based on the book Teachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America's Teachers by Calegari, Eggers, and Daniel Moulthrop, the film is one part of the Teacher Salary Project, which aims to shine a light on the undervaluation of the nation's 3.2 million tTeachers Have It Easy: The Big Sacrifices and Small Salaries of America's Teachers by Calegari, Eggers, and Daniel Moulthrop, the film is one part of the Teacher Salary Project, which aims to shine a light on the undervaluation of the nation's 3.2 million tTeachers by Calegari, Eggers, and Daniel Moulthrop, the film is one part of the Teacher Salary Project, which aims to shine a light on the undervaluation of the nation's 3.2 million teachersteachers.

Now entire state systems are moving toward merit pay, with new policies established recently in Florida and Texas requiring districts to set teachers» salaries based in part on the gains their students are making on the state's accountability exam.

First, under a pay structure based on knowledge and skills, all teachers can earn salary increases by acquiring new knowledge and skills.

These higher salaries should be based on demonstrated teacher expertise at the highest professional levels, expertise that is linked to greater student learning.

Such pay innovations should also boost student achievement and, because they are based on performance, strengthen the argument for dramatically raising teacher salaries — at least for those with the highest levels of professional expertise.

For most of the century just past, and into the current one, school districts have paid their teachers according to a «single salary schedule,» a pay scheme that bases an individual teacher's salary on two factors: years of experience (steps) and number of education credits and degrees (lanes).

Asked their opinion on «basing part of the salaries of teachers on how much their students learn,» 60 % of the public express support for the idea in 2016.

The foundation's Teacher Advancement Program, which provides training opportunities to help teachers climb a career ladder toward higher salaries based on their performance, is now in place in 85 schools and is poised for a major expansion, with states and the federal government offering financial support.

Asked their opinion on «basing part of the salaries of teachers on how much their students learn,» 60 % express support (Figure 7a).

Elementary - and secondary - school teachers in the United States traditionally have been compensated according to salary schedules based solely on experience and education.

The Cincinnati Federation of Teachers and the school district's administration jointly designed a new teacher salary system that includes both a pay structure based on knowledge and skills and a bonus linked to school performance.

Few if any districts are upending the tenure track and paying teachers different salaries based on student outcomes.

For example, experienced teachers could be guaranteed their current salaries, plus cost - of - living adjustments, rather than the original raises on the traditional schedule or the salary declines imposed by an evidence - based schedule.

The costs of paying new teachers on the evidence - based schedule while keeping existing teachers on the traditional schedule would peak after 10 years, at which point savings associated with the flattened rewards for experience would begin to outweigh the costs of higher salaries to younger teachers.

A conversion to the evidence - based salary schedule could thus be seen as a means of boosting starting teacher salaries without increasing expenditures on education.

These two places happened to be the leaders in applying test - based accountability to teachers, putting teacher tenure on the line (in Tennessee) and teachers» jobs and salary on the line (in D.C.).

Among the 27 OECD countries for which the necessary PISA data are also available, 12 countries reported having adjustments of teacher salaries based on outstanding performance in teaching.

For decades, teachers have climbed, step by step, up the traditional pay ladder, automatically earning salary increases based on their education level and years of service.

The discriminatory impact of this compromise lessened as the gender gap in master's degree attainment narrowed, and more subtle means of discrimination were hampered by nearly universal adoption of the uniform salary schedule, with teachers» pay based only on experience and education.

In other words, a teacher's annual salary is based on about 76 percent of a standard work year.

While some teachers or districts may prefer lower expenditures on retirement benefits in exchange for higher base salaries, neither teachers nor local school districts are given that choice.

Under these plans, a teacher's retirement benefit is based on a combination of factors: how many years he or she worked, some percentage (also known as a «multiplier» or «accrual factor,» for instance 2 percent), and a final average salary (FAS).

When asked for an opinion straight out, 43 percent of Americans support the idea of basing a teacher's salary in part on his or her students» academic progress on state tests; 27 percent oppose the idea; 30 percent are undecided.

To assess public support for this policy, commonly known as merit pay, the survey asked respondents in 2009 whether they favored «basing a teacher's salary, in part, on students» academic progress on state tests.»

If a teacher with a master's degree goes on to earn the median teacher's salary in the U.S., even after making 10 years of income - based payments, she won't have paid back more than the first $ 17,000 in federal student loans she borrowed as an undergraduate before the remainder of her debt is erased.

Proponents, insisting that tying teacher salaries to measurable standards will improve schools, have instituted a wide variety of incentive plans across the country: Some evaluate teachers based solely on standardized test scores, some on teacher skill development; some offer more pay to teachers working in at - risk schools or with at - risk children, or for teaching certain subjects.

Potential teachers should demonstrate competence in an academic discipline and an aptitude for teaching; schools must offer incentives to attract outstanding candidates; unconventional paths to the profession must be forged; and salaries must be based on performance and sensitive to market conditions.

Teachers» salaries today are based on credentials and years of experience, factors that are at best weakly related to productivity.

Fifty - seven percent of the public supports «basing part of the salaries of teachers on how much their students learn,» while 31 % opposes this idea.

Under the new rules, teachers still receive a pension based on their salary, but on their average earnings over their entire career, rather than what they were on before retiring.