Sentences with phrase «by hiring more teachers»

The study determined healthier meals cost approximately $ 80 more per year per student; to achieve similar testing improvements through reducing class sizes by hiring more teachers would cost five times as much.

Murray says the PTA's generosity has allowed him to use district funds to reduce class sizes by hiring more teachers.

First, schools lowered student / teacher ratios by hiring more teachers than they lost.

They acknowledge programs could be improved by the hiring more teachers who are fully qualified.

Not exact matches

Charter schools have argued that there is a shortage of teachers and that it is hard to hire enough instructors under the more stringent qualification required by the State Education Department.

Charter schools have argued that there's a shortage of teachers and that it's hard to hire enough instructors under the more stringent qualification required by the State Education Department.

Senate Republicans not only stuck it to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio on mayoral control of the public schools, but also handed a victory to his nemesis, Success Academy charter school network founder Eva Moskowitz by allowing charters to hire more uncertified teachers.

Education Week is reporting on an Empire Center's report that says over the past decade «public schools hired nearly 15,000 teachers and almost 9,000 administrators, guidance counselors and other support workers over the last 10 years as enrollment dropped by more than 121,000 students.

Many have responded by hiring more ESL teachers and adding full immersion classes where ELLs learn alongside native English speakers.

Taken together, TFA and the TNTP maybe prepare slightly more than 5 percent of new teachers hired by districts.

«Teachers hired during recession periods appeared to be somewhat more effective than those teachers hired in more secure times, according to a new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic RTeachers hired during recession periods appeared to be somewhat more effective than those teachers hired in more secure times, according to a new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Rteachers hired in more secure times, according to a new working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

School districts, including most charter schools, have no choice but to pay the rates set by the state legislature, even if they'd prefer to spend precious resources on higher teacher salaries, hiring more teachers, or making other critical investments in school services.

Districts and schools wishing to hire more - effective teachers could benefit from collecting a broader set of information on their candidates, concludes a new working paper by several well - known teacher - quality researchers.

Large and medium - size school districts are hiring more rookie teachers and eliminating administrative jobs to reduce their costs, a recent survey by the Educational Research Service says.

Instead, school districts have attempted to enhance student learning (and address many other problems along the way) by hiring more people — more teachers (for smaller classes) and more teacher aides, guidance counselors, bus drivers, lawyers, accountants, special educators, bilingual specialists, and others.

How much money is spent, and where, who is hired or fired, how we promote effective teaching, how we measure education outcomes, and more — all are affected by the relative power of the teachers unions at any given moment.

The Chicago school system, the nation's third largest, hired 2,236 new teachers for the 2000 - 01 school year — up by more than 300 from last year, according to data released this month.

By rewarding individuals who step up on their own and take the training by hiring them first or giving them preferred placement on jobs, substitute teachers will be more than willing to invest in traininBy rewarding individuals who step up on their own and take the training by hiring them first or giving them preferred placement on jobs, substitute teachers will be more than willing to invest in traininby hiring them first or giving them preferred placement on jobs, substitute teachers will be more than willing to invest in training.

Turnover is higher in districts that meet shortages by hiring teachers who have not completed an adequate preparation, as novices without training leave after their first year at more than twice the rate of those who have had student teaching and rigorous preparation.

If current trends continue, we would see as few as 200,000 available teacher hires each year by 2025, resulting in a gap of more than 100,000 teachers annually.

A teacher untrained in hiring protocol may call a colleague to get more information about a candidate, opening the district to a lawsuit if that person was not listed as a reference by the candidate.

But the researchers found that white teachers fired after Katrina were more likely to be hired by charter schools than black teachers were.

If Henderson uses money saved by not hiring a GT coordinator to cut to train more teachers in how to enrich all classes, Henry Gradillas (still doing some teaching in Wisconsin at age 76) will approve.

Returning black teachers were more likely to be hired by the few schools still run by the Orleans Parish School Board.

Kopp is particularly enamored by high - performing charter schools, which succeed because they do whatever it takes to hire and retain good teachers, a zero - sum game that most schools can not win without more resources — those dreaded «inputs.»

It's one effort to help avert a brewing crisis for New Orleans schools: By 2020, the city will need to hire more than 900 teachers annually, an increase of nearly 40 percent from 2010, according to estimates by New Schools for New OrleanBy 2020, the city will need to hire more than 900 teachers annually, an increase of nearly 40 percent from 2010, according to estimates by New Schools for New Orleanby New Schools for New Orleans.

With the help of the NGA, they are focusing much more deliberately on math and science, teacher training in math and science, expanding AP, and easing the requirements for master's degrees by allowing districts to hire math and science teachers with a bachelor's degree for non-tenure track jobs.

It offers recommendations for implementing such an approach, including making retention of irreplaceable teachers a top priority by aiming to retain more than 90 percent of them annually; overhauling principal hiring, support, and evaluation; paying teachers what they're worth; and monitoring school working conditions.

School districts were encouraged during those eight years to reduce class sizes by two students per year, and Florida budgeted annually during that time to help districts hire more teachers.

As public schools were hiring more and more non-teaching staff, inflation - adjusted salaries for public school teachers actually fell by 2 percent.

«For the average charter school facility in New Jersey, with an average enrollment of 274 students, this translates into $ 388,532 — enough to hire more than eight additional teachers,» said the analysis released by the New Jersey Charter School Association, the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools and the Colorado League of Charter Schools.

In the districts that hired more underprepared teachers, the share of new hires who held less than a full teaching credential increased by about 30 %, on average, compared to the previous year.

For the most part though, the unions are still throwing most of their money and manpower toward the Democrats, who have also supported policies they like — including a bill to hire nearly 300,000 more teachers, which was scuttled by Republicans in Congress.

Second, there is a new willingness by legislatures in a majority of states to push actively for more flexibility in hiring, paying, and retaining teachers and for improved teacher evaluations so that we identify the teachers that we want to nurture and retain.

By contrast, the U.S. system spends a lot of resources on keeping class sizes relatively small, and hiring more teachers for them.

The TFA teachers are hired by school principals (whose job it is to know what is best for the particular students at their school) to teach in their school and pay several thousand more dollars per teacher than a non-TFA teacher.

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By coupling priority hiring for high - needs schools with sustained financial incentives for teachers to assume positions in more challenging schools, high - needs districts can attain expanded access to diverse, high - achieving teacher candidates.

A study by the American Institutes for Research found that improvements in turnaround schools in Florida and North Carolina used a combination of hiring more effective teachers to replace outgoing ones and improving the productivity of existing staff.

By Barnett Berry and Patrick M. Shields Over the next decade, we will recruit and hire more than 2 million teachers for America's schools.

New York City, which has the nation's largest public school system, wants to hire 1,000 black, Latino and Asian male teachers by 2017 to create a teaching corps that more closely matches the student body.

One of the best ways to address the shortage is by increasing teacher retention — if we keep more of our great teachers in Oakland classrooms, we will dramatically reduce the number of hires we need to make each year.

Although research shows that BTR graduates are initially not more effective at raising student test scores than other new teachers, the effectiveness of BTR graduates improves rapidly over time, and by their fourth and fifth years in the classroom, BTR graduates outperform other veteran teachers.70 Further, principals are very satisfied with the performance of former residents in their building: A recent survey conducted by BTR found that 97 percent of principals who employ teachers who are alumni of BTR «would recommend hiring a BTR graduate to a colleague.»

The relaxed regulations permit schools to extend the school day, use funds in ways not designated by the state, hire teachers for positions other than those for which they are licensed and more.

America's teacher shortage can't be solved by hiring more unqualified teachers.

Perhaps if law firms were clear and relatively unanimous in their expectations of students» research skills, perhaps if those expectations were conveyed to students more or less directly (LRW teachers would be willing messengers), and perhaps if hiring were to any extent at all influenced by a candidate's demonstrated research skills, law students might pay attention.

You'll notice that the professional substitute teacher cover letter sample addresses the hiring manager by full name, which is more personal than a generic address such as to whom it may concern and also avoids the awkwardness of choosing the proper honorific.