Sentences with phrase «bulk of teacher pay»

Despite proliferating chatter about the need to reform teacher compensation, the bulk of teacher pay remains fundamentally unchanged.

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The bulk of this increase went to paying down debt on existing pension obligations, not to the direct costs of providing new benefits for current teachers.

That led Claypool to say the district would slash school budgets and stop paying the bulk of teachers» pension contributions.

Chicago Public Schools said it will quit paying the bulk of pension contributions for more than 2,000 nonunion workers, a move that lays groundwork for the district to request similar concessions from the Chicago Teachers Union and other employees with labor contracts.

Pension plans today are expensive, but the bulk of the costs are going to pay down unfunded liabilities, not for actual benefits for teachers.

It wasn't until 2014, an election year, that lawmakers offered teachers an average pay increase of 7 percent, with the bulk of those raises going to beginning teachers and experienced teachers getting next to nothing.

The district's contract proposal phased out the district's longstanding practice of picking up the bulk of teacher pension contributions and increased union insurance premiums in exchange for a series of pay hikes over four years and a promise of no economic layoffs.

Chicago Teachers Union members and supporters marched Feb. 4, 2016, in the Loop to show opposition to the district's decision to slash school budgets and stop paying the bulk of teachers» pension contriTeachers Union members and supporters marched Feb. 4, 2016, in the Loop to show opposition to the district's decision to slash school budgets and stop paying the bulk of teachers» pension contriteachers» pension contributions.