Sentences with phrase «cut teacher numbers»

Labour's education spokesman Hugh Henry claimed the SNP had cut teacher numbers every year since it had come to power.

«This means that schools will have little choice other than to cut teacher numbers to reduce financial losses in future.»

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«The massive number of teacher layoffs, school closings, cuts to academic programs and extracurricular activities could have been worse had districts not tapped into reserve funds or worked hard to negotiate contract concessions with their employee unions.»

The regulations, approved by the SUNY Charter Schools Committee on Wednesday, were tweaked from the original proposal, which would have cut the number of hours of classroom instruction a teacher must receive to only 30.

He insisted that Labour's plans to balance the books would be «aggressive,» but insisted that «our cuts will not be the number of police officers on our streets or nurses in our hospitals or teachers in our classroom.»

The core numbers hadn't changed much since Bloomberg's preliminary budget presentation in February — he's still planning to cut 6,000 teachers to help close a deficit that's still more than $ 2 billion.

CITY HALL — City Council members blasted Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott Wednesday over threats to cut more than 6,000 teachers, questioning the city's numbers and insisting there are better ways to cut costs.

«And just last month, Bloomberg said in a perfect world he'd cut the number of teachers in half, doubling class size.»

But the reserves account for only 1,050 teachers, a small percentage of the number that could lose their jobs if proposed state budget cuts are enacted.

Cuts the number of National Science Foundation grants by over 11,000 over the next 10 years, eliminating support for over 13,000 researchers, students and teachers in 2014 alone.

The Association for Science Education, which represents science teachers, warns that any move to cut the numbers taking Model A would be a backward step.

In fact, more districts cut the number of working days for teachers than addressed the spiraling cost of health benefits.

Because many districts credit a transferring teacher with only a limited number of years of experience, teachers may have to take a salary cut if they switch school districts.

The dwindling number of school places, the increasing size of classes and the continued budget cuts that are stretching resources to breaking point are all important factors which limit our teachers» ability to provide the proper safeguarding for vulnerable children.

The report finds teacher salaries were directly affected by the GFC in 2008, with a number either frozen or cut in some nations.

Despite a well protected school spending budget under the present parliament, the IFS believe that increasing pupil numbers and staff wages will contribute to the possible funding cuts, while teachers» pensions and national insurance contributions could also be effective.

Of 1,054 respondents, 129 said that their class size was at 35 pupils or more as a result of cutting staff numbers and reorganising classes among fewer teachers.

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Based on all that scrutiny, TFA cut the number of corps members that each teaching coach supervises to 30 or fewer, down from 50 a few years ago (in Chicago, Anderson cut it further, to 20 teachers per coach).

Committed to a balanced budget, Hite and the SRC put forth a «doomsday» budget that severely cut the number of noontime aides, counselors, and teachers, and created «split» classrooms, that is, classrooms with two grade levels in the same room.

The government in the Canadian province has just announced measures to cut back on the number of students training as teachers.

This combined with an increasing number of teachers choosing to cut their careers short and a drop in applicants to teacher training.

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For reducing the achievement gap between the Atlanta Public Schools and the State of Georgia, lowering the dropout rate, cutting back the number of teacher vacancies, and renovating and consolidating some of Atlantas schools, Atlanta superintendent Dr. Beverly L. Hall earned the 2006 Richard R. Green Award, the nations highest honor for urban education leadership, at the Council of the Great City Schools 50th Annual Fall Conference.

Scotland's 32 councils have accepted the Scottish government's # 10.3 billion funding settlement, which contains commitments to maintain teacher numbers but will see cuts to local authority budgets.

«At a time when pupil numbers in England are predicted to rise by 8 per cent over the next five years while budgets are simultaneously cut, it is now more important than ever that we support our existing teachers and offer them a fair deal in terms of remuneration.»

The row involves West Dunbartonshire council's move to cut the number of principal teachers of individual subjects in the area's five secondary schools and replace them with «faculty heads» whose roles cover a range of subjects.

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Without increased funding schools will have to continue cutting the number of support staff, which leaves vulnerable children with less support and further increases teachers» workloads.»

The policy reduced teacher absences on an annual basis by about 10 percent and cut the number of teachers with 15 or more annual absences by 20 percent, according to the report by Brian A. Jacob, a professor of education policy and economics at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor.

However, accounting for fade - out in teacher effects would roughly cut that number in half to.045 standard deviations.

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«We hear from our teachers and principals, our partners in the schools, there are more kids who could desperately use a youth advocate so at the time we're having to look at whether we can go, instead we're having to cut back and we know the number of students who could benefit from the program is growing,» says Malgieri.

Adamowski and his lackeys at the National Council on Teacher Quality (he's on the board, which he did not disclose when he hired them to assess Hartford schools) stated that it would be better if districts just cut the number of paid sick days teachers have.

As lawmakers draw closer to finalizing a state budget that has drawn the most attention for how it may boost teacher pay and cut Medicaid, another battle is taking place at the legislature, too — over lowering standards for North Carolina's growing number of charter schools.

Under such circumstances, district administrators would in all likelihood be forced to make up for the lost revenue through combinations such as reducing the number of teachers and cutting supplies and supplemental programming.

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Murray, a former preschool teacher, put her foot down during the call — as she had done many times before — on one of her chief priorities: The bill had to include a pre-K program, which pained House Republicans» hankering to cut the number of government programs.

A perfect storm appears to be well past the brewing stage, with increasing student numbers, large - scale budget cuts, and one of the most arduous periods in which to recruit teachers.

The unions say their figures show that cuts to school budgets are hitting the front line, but the Department for Education suggested the numbers are «fundamentally misleading», and claimed there were «15,000 more teachers in classrooms since 2010».

The teachers union has every right to scream about funding cuts and potential layoffs (even if we won't have real numbers for several weeks at least).

The state also simplified the rubric for classroom observations, reducing the number of points principals track in observations and cutting one rating level for teachers, creating four options from «ineffective,» to «highly effective.»

«And we're doing it in a way that isn't necessarily at the expense of other educational cuts,» Tillis said, emphasizing that the House doesn't include severe cuts included in the Senate's plan, which would offer teachers an eleven percent raise but would also eliminate second and third grade teacher assistants from the classroom, cut the Department of Public Instruction by 30 percent, and reduce the number of badly needed school nurses around the state, among other cuts.

In terms of staffing, 39 % of the teachers surveyed reported cuts to music staff numbers, while 17 % reported increases.

Schools are cutting back on teacher numbers and the pupil - to - teacher ratio is worsening.

The numbers are even more impressive given the funding challenges facing the district in recent years, where rising teacher pension costs and declining state support have forced endless borrowing, budget cuts and layoffs, escalating tensions with the local teachers union.

The unions are blaming cuts to support staff, the increasing number of existing teachers leaving the profession early, and the introduction of zero - hour contracts in further and higher education as some of the key reasons for this fall.

Then there are the teacher cuts — between 2008 and 2012, more than 300,000 education jobs were lost, according to the Obama White House, a number that's recovered only slightly since then.

A small, but growing, number of schools are using their funding for disadvantaged pupils to offset budget cuts elsewhere — 6 % of teachers reported this as the main priority for their school's pupil premium spending, an increase from 2 % in 2015.

In fact, as Mike Antonucci writes, «Since 1921 (nationally) we have almost quintupled the number of teachers, more than quintupled the average teacher salary in inflation - adjusted dollars, and also cut the student - teacher ratio in half.»