Sentences with phrase «districts hire more teachers»

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.

Sean has successfully fought for billions more in education aid, to help school districts hire more teachers, lower class sizes, and actually make investments in arts, music, and sports.

Not exact matches

The Rochester City School District is in the midst of hiring season for the next school year, and is pushing to add more teachers with diverse backgrounds to classrooms.

State Sen. Jim Tedisco lauded the district and its administrators for spending the funding on hiring more teachers and expanding programs aimed at needy children and proposing a budget that cuts school taxes.

Schools Superintendent Pamela Brown says raising attendance is a priority, but doesn't know if the district can hire more attendance teachers on its budget.

Districts would have no option if they wanted to provide their staff a different mix of compensation, even if they'd prefer to spend more resources on higher teacher salaries, hiring more teachers or making other investments.

To improve special education, we need to ensure full funding so that districts can hire certified special - education teachers; reduce paperwork so special - education teachers have more time for planning and instruction; and provide administrators with training in special education.

Districts hiring TFA or VIF teachers are making a trade - off between faster student growth and more stability within their schools.

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

So I think you're seeing more districts recognizing the cuts were not as severe as they [were expected to be], and across the state I have seen evidence of districts hiring back teachers.

This trend coincided roughly with a teacher hiring boom here in the United States, meaning these changes happened despite districts» employing more teachers, and it's likely to continue as states and districts continue to feel the pressure from unfunded pension and health care promises, which totaled $ 1.38 trillion at last count.

Instead of hiring even more teachers or paying them more money, districts are devoting an increasing share of finite resources to employee benefits.

That said, there has been a little bit of recent research suggesting some districts are doing things that help select teachers that might be more predictive in the hiring process.

«Although the statutes may lead to the hiring and retention of more ineffective teachers than a hypothetical alternative system would, the statutes do not address the assignment of teachers; instead, administrators — not the statutes — ultimately determine where teachers within a district are assigned to teach.»

One group of local citizens — teachers and other employees of the school district — has an intense interest in everything the district does: how much money it spends, how the money is allocated, how hiring and firing are handled, what work rules are adopted, how the curriculum is determined, which schools are to be opened and closed, and much more.

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.

It's not necessary because, if former teachers and graduates of programs in educational administration are more qualified, school districts will hire them ahead of other candidates.

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.

As school enrollments continue to rise and more teachers retire, school districts across the country are valiantly trying to hire and retain enough high - quality educators to meet their needs.

If, instead, the state and its school districts implemented a smarter retirement structure [4], the district could hire 207 more teachers [5] or give each of the 2,000 district teachers a $ 3,315 per year raise [6], while still providing retirement benefits to district employees.

Many districts need to hire more teachers to comply with new state - government pressure to reduce K - 3 class sizes to 24 students.

Instead of hiring more teachers or increasing teacher salaries, school districts are devoting an increasing share of their resources to employee benefits.

Their hypothesis: districts with collective bargaining foster good salary and benefit structures, enabling more qualified teachers to be hired.

District 6 (East Valley) candidate Monica Ratliff was spotted outside at the UTLA rally to hire more teachers / reduce class size.

The question essentially turned to whether should school districts be hiring more Black teachers for the sake of diversity or hiring more capable teachers.

The district's budget, in turn, determines the staffing ratios, class sizes, and wages it is able to pay, and trade - offs are made between staffing ratios and wage levels: the more teachers are hired, the less each can be paid.

Forty - three percent of districts responded that teachers of color were «very difficult» to hire, more so than special education teachers, teachers of English Language Learners, and high school science teachers.

At Clark County School District in Las Vegas, Nevada, SchoolSpring — the nation's largest K - 12 education - specific job board — helps leaders more effectively attract and hire quality teachers.

This poor retention of beginning teachers creates continued teacher shortages and a revolving - door phenomenon, as districts scramble to address this early attrition with the hiring of more beginning teachers.

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.

Districts, for their part, reported needing to hire more than 22,000 teachers for the same year.

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.

The vacancies are pushing school districts to hire more inexperienced teachers who may not even have their teaching credentials yet.

The district must prioritize the hiring of more minority teachers as role models.

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.

The district moved up its timeline to hire teachers, which Hargrove - Krieghoff says helps ensure access to a more diverse and talented pool of candidates.

The budgets now being passed in state legislatures for the upcoming fiscal year could include enough funding to allow some school districts to start hiring more teachers again, he said.

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

In some districts, it may mean spending millions more in local dollars to hire additional teachers.

North Carolina public school leaders say a legislative mandate to decrease class sizes in the early grades may have a devastating impact on school systems across the state, forcing districts to spend millions more hiring teachers or cut scores of positions for those teaching «specialty» subjects such as arts, music and physical education.

District priorities: The district pushed more flexibility in teacher placement and hiring, and fewer professional days in the beginning of the academDistrict priorities: The district pushed more flexibility in teacher placement and hiring, and fewer professional days in the beginning of the academdistrict pushed more flexibility in teacher placement and hiring, and fewer professional days in the beginning of the academic year.

In the Clark County School District in Las Vegas, more than 80 special education teachers from the Philippines with J - 1 visas have been hired to teach special education.

The district could hire any combination of teachers, from beginning teachers making $ 35,000 per year to teachers with more than 25 years of experience, master's degrees, and National Board of Professional Teaching Standards certification, each making $ 62,220 per year.

The state's funding dilemma is complicated, but school leaders say a loss of flexibility over average and maximum individual classroom sizes in grades K - 3 would force districts to hire thousands more teachers in core subjects.

-- The district will hire 600 more teachers for art, music, physical education, world languages and other «special» classes, and another contract provision stipulates that half of all new district hires must consist of laid - off members.

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 instance, most districts give transferring teachers a maximum of five years credit for previous experience, forcing teachers with more experience to take a salary cut if they want to be hired.

This week, the Los Angeles Unified School District and the United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) announced a tentative contract agreement that creates more autonomy for teachers, giving them greater flexibility in the classroom over curricula, materials, hiring practices, and fTeachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) announced a tentative contract agreement that creates more autonomy for teachers, giving them greater flexibility in the classroom over curricula, materials, hiring practices, and fteachers, giving them greater flexibility in the classroom over curricula, materials, hiring practices, and finances.