Sentences with phrase «declining salaries of teachers»

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School districts faced with declining enrollments could avoid layoffs by using a popular Canadian program that allows teachers to defer part of their annual salaries to fund a year off with pay.

National survey finds declining support for increased school spending and teacher salaries; thinks schools do not do as well at attending to the needs of the less - talented as those of the more - talented.

• However, when Americans are given information about current teacher salaries, support for higher salaries for teachers falls from 58 % to 34 %, an extraordinary decline of 24 percentage points.

After the U.S. recession took hold in 2008, support for increases in teachers» salaries among both uninformed and informed groups of respondents declined sharply.

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.

Given the stagnation of teacher salaries in the last three decades and the concomitant decline in class sizes, it is somewhat surprising that the public continues to prefer further cuts in class size over increases in teacher salaries.

He cited one unnamed district with declining enrollment and a huge deficit problem that is seeking to roll back salaries, while another unnamed district has reached an impasse with its teachers union despite an offer of a 7.5 percent raise.

While the N.C. Association of Educators and teachers have demanded increases to per pupil spending, funding is only a symptom of a larger problem.Much of the tensions between the state legislature and teachers — arising from a decline in inflation - adjusted per - pupil spending and a 10 percent decline in inflation - adjusted salaries — could have been circumvented with stronger rights for public - sector employees.

1 — rank of North Carolina among the states for the largest decline in average teacher salaries from 2003 - 2004 to 2013 - 2014 (Ibid)

Full - time teacher salaries declined by an average of about $ 2,000 after Gov. Scott Walker signed Act 10, restricting collective bargaining rights for most public employees, according to a study from a conservative legal group.

Full - time teacher salaries declined by an average of about $ 2,000 after Gov. Scott Walker signed Act 10, restricting collective bargaining rig...

And North Carolina is dead last in the change in teachers» salaries over the past decade — teacher's salaries dropped 16 percent during that period, compared with the national average of a three percent decline.

I speak in particular of AFT President Randi Weingarten, who reportedly pulled in an AFT income of over half a million dollars in 2014, while the average teacher salary in the United States has declined by 2.3 percent since 2000 to $ 56,689.