Sentences with phrase «cutting teacher benefits»

Improved funding could help the situation — policymakers might stop cutting teacher benefits and may even start to reverse the slide.

She said she's perplexed by efforts to cut teacher benefits.

Not exact matches

Union leaders urged Wisconsin teachers to return to work at schools that are open on Monday, but large protests were expected to continue at the Capitol against a plan to cut collective bargaining rights and benefits to state workers.

We have frozen post-secondary tuition for two years, funded teachers and nurses that the PCs were going to cut, and created the Alberta Child Benefit Plan for low - income families, which is a $ 340 - million investment in new direct help to families who need it most.

State Senate Democrats have reaped $ 85,000 in election - year campaign contributions from the state teachers union since they skipped last month's vote to cut pension benefits for new teachers and other public employees.

Limiting benefit rises to 1 %, scrapping the planned fuel duty increase, devolving power over teacher pay to schools and cutting corporation tax are steps in the right direction.

Hard to see how school districts can come anywhere close to the cap without cannibalistic - teacher reduction — cut the young teachers to pay for the benefits for the more senior.

New York (CNNMoney)- Illinois lawmakers approved a landmark pension reform package Tuesday that would cut retirement benefits for teachers, nurses and other retired and current state workers.

He contrasted the mayor's desire to let the millionaire's tax sunset this year — which he said would blow a $ 5 billion hole in the state budget — with the mayor's insistence in his State of the City address that the city needed to be able to reduce pension benefits and lay off «more expensive» senior teachers to cut costs.

New York State lawmakers, at the urging of Gov. Cuomo, voted on March 15 to cut the retirement benefits for future public employees including New York City public school teachers.

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

When asked how they «reduced their budget gaps» over the past two years, fewer than half had eliminated or limited cost of living raises for teachers, only 30 percent cut automatic step increases, and just 13 percent trimmed benefits.

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Teachers know that if they lose their unions during a fiscal crisis, they will have no protection at all as long as state and local officials face enormous pressure to cut teaching jobs, compensation, and benefits.

On Monday, the Philadelphia School Reform Commission shocked the city by announcing that it would unilaterally cut health care benefits to city teachers rather than continue to negotiate with the teacher's union.

Given that 55 % of K - 12 spending funds teacher salaries and benefits, you can't cut costs without boosting the productivity of good teachers — which requires increasing class size.

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Districts and states could use the money to restore cuts to K - 12 and higher education to cover the cost of compensation and benefits for teachers and other employees.

Those who make the cut will enter college - oriented programs with special benefits (custom - trained teachers, outside mentoring, international exchanges) and a subsidy from the district to cover any school fees.

Rising costs have led states and districts to scale back their spending on instructional costs, including on teacher salaries, and cut retirement benefits for new workers.

So in order to avoid the political and legal headache of trying to cut benefits for existing workers, states typically take the easier path and create new «tiers» or modified versions of a plan with lower benefits for new teachers.

Although teachers across the K — 12 spectrum commonly assign homework, research has produced no clear - cut consensus on the benefits of homework at the early elementary grade levels.

The district wants to cut base salaries by 5 % to 13 % to offset the rising cost of pensions and for teachers to contribute to their health benefits.

While these approaches could lead to large cost savings, and there are some approaches that would only affect teachers with many more years left in the profession, as a general rule I would caution states against cutting benefits.

«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.

More recently, in many districts teachers» salaries have been reduced as a result of unpaid furlough days, cuts in benefits, and other cost cutting moves.

Despite years of fully funding its share of the teacher - pension plan, the proportion of the St. Louis district's budget tied up in paying benefits for its teachers now makes up about 10 percent — a factor that, coupled with other rising costs, is fueling ongoing cuts in this beleaguered district.

Governor Signs CTA Bill to Help Laid - off Educators Retrain for Hard - to - Staff Fields CTA Blog: Teachers laid off because of California's bruising education funding cuts will be able to collect unemployment benefits while retraining to fill other teaching positions in California's shortage fields because of Gov. Jerry Brown's signing of a CTA - backed bill.

It's one of many teaching benefits that has been cut by state lawmakers; additional pay for advanced degrees, professional development opportunities, and a state - funded teacher training program called NC Teaching Fellows have all been squashed in recent times.

The teachers lined out the door Monday afternoon to attend a House Finance Committee hearing on Senate Bill 200, which would cut public employee retirement benefits to shore up the state retirement plan.

Government changes to the discount rate (a rate of interest used to value the Teachers» Pension Scheme) mean that even though the scheme benefits have been cut and employee contributions increased, employer contributions have risen from 14.1 per cent to 16.4 per cent.

And looking overseas has become a «last resort» to fill ongoing vacancies in Arizona, where teacher turnover went up as salaries and benefits went down in post-recession budget cutting.

The teachers union, UTLA, has also expressed concerns about possible cuts in health benefits by the district.

Recent pension reforms, focused mainly on cutting costs, generally make this situation worse and force new teachers to work even longer before they benefit from their pension plans.

In Washington D.C the City Council Chairman announced plans to cut off TANF benefits to parents that didn't attend parent - teacher conferences and meetings.

Not only do the data show a clear change before and after Act 10 passed, but changes in compensation, turnover, and exit rates appear to be larger in Wisconsin than in other states.6 Further, both supporters and opponents of the law agree that it caused major cuts to teacher benefits and reduced teachers» compensation.

The final budget bill cut state K - 12 spending by nearly $ 800 million, over7 percent — the largest amount in Wisconsin's history — and limited local governments» abilities to make up for these cuts through property taxes.14 That same year, Gov. Walker passed major tax cuts primarily targeted toward corporations and the wealthy that totaled $ 2.33 billion over 10 years.15 Gov. Walker and Act 10 proponents argued that the bill's reforms would allow schools to offset these cuts by reducing teachers» benefits and hiring lower - paid teachers, preventing budget cuts from affecting students.16 Gov. Walker also argued that eliminating requirements to bargain over salary structures, hiring, and working conditions would give schools additional flexibility needed to attract and retain higher - quality teachers.17

Due in large part to rising pension costs, the state has also cut the value of the retirement benefits it offers its teachers.

States are in the midst of their own contribution increases and benefit cuts, and as a result today's teacher retirement plans are worse than those offered to prior generations.

This year Governor Malloy is proposing cutting back funds to help retired teachers pay their health benefits.

We will never forget your state of the state speech where you insulted every public school teacher, we will never forget who you put in as education commissioner, we will never forget your sympathies to charter schools, and we will never forget who you tried to cut the retired teacher's health benefits in the budget, while giving billionaires money to move their corporation fifteen miles down the road.

Prospective teachers see those attacks — cuts in salaries and benefits, deterioration of collective bargaining rights — and are dissuaded from pursuing careers in teaching.

Moreover, extremely high (and rising) pension costs have played a role in keeping teacher salaries flat in recent years, and those costs have also contributed to large cuts in pension benefits for new teachers.

But now, teacher pension plans are underfunded by billions of dollars, and states have been forced to cut benefits for future retirees.