Sentences with phrase «district reduced a salary»

Oakland teachers Danielle Justesen, Miya Partido and Kei Swensen, from left, demonstrate in the middle of Broadway at 51st Street in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014, after the school district reduced a salary offer and rejected a request for lower class sizes during contract talks.

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The results indicate that higher salaries significantly reduce the probability that male teachers will leave a district.

In other words, even when an ERI program creates substantial savings for school districts by reducing teacher salary costs, it still can cost the state money through higher pension payments.

A 2010 study of declining - enrollment districts by Pacey Economics Group found that, while districts face real challenges reducing transportation costs, they do have flexibility on «other categories such as other supporting operations and maintenance, instructional salaries and benefits, food service, and administration.»

Many a district leader has found that raising salaries and reducing class sizes is quite a bit more palatable politically than vice versa.

Thus, even if school districts did succeed in reducing the gap in access to effective teaching with their own personnel policies, they would inevitably have to reduce other services to pay for them, e.g., larger class sizes, or lower base salaries.

Budgetary shortfalls, school district bankruptcies, teacher and administrator layoffs, hiring and salary freezes, pension system defaults, shorter school years, ever - larger classes, faculty furloughs, fewer course electives, reduced field trips, foregone or curtailed athletics, outdated textbooks, teachers having to make do with fewer supplies, cuts in school maintenance, and other tales of fiscal woe inevitably captivate the news media, particularly during the late - spring and summer budget and appropriations seasons.

Idaho also provides an unusual incentive to reduce the number of uncertified teachers: After a district's total state aid allocation is calculated, the state subtracts the contract salary for every teacher working in the district without certification.

They have already voted no to across the board teacher salary increases and continued the freeze on teachers» salaries that has been in place for 5 years (at the same time passed a tax break for the wealthy, and now, with reduced revenue can not give raises), increased class size, taken away additional pay for Masters degrees, eliminated most of the state's teacher assistants, gone after tenure and offered the top 25 % of the teachers in a district $ 500 to give up their tenure immediately, increased the number of charter schools (many funded by Republicans in the private school business) and finally, the most recent scheme pondered is to let kids go to any school in the state regardless of their home county.

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.

The district's most recent offer to the teachers was a five percent pay increase, retroactive to July 1 of last year, with an increase of the minimum salary to $ 50,000 from $ 45,637 and $ 13 million to help reduce class size.