Sentences with phrase «expected teacher absences»

Because of all the expected teacher absences, 16 school districts will close on May 16, including Wake County, Durham, Johnston County, Chapel Hill - Carrboro and Orange County.

Because of all the expected teacher absences, at least 42 of North Carolina's 115 school districts have announced they'll close school on May 16.

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Nearly half of teachers expect to have to deal with an increase in redundancies in the next two to three years and more than a third (37 % and 36 %) expect an increase in long - term sickness and repetitive short - term absences.

This uncertainty motivates our third and final analytic approach, where we measure the bias in teachers» expectations as the difference between students» actual outcomes and whatever we would have expected based on everything we can observe about them in the absence of self - fulfilling prophecies.

Our estimates suggest that a policy intervention that simultaneously raised teacher base salaries and broadened financial penalties for absences could both raise teachers» expected income and lower districts» expected costs.

Enabling practice in the teaching profession will not be simple, but Ericsson and Pool's Peak offers a stark wake - up call, pointing up that we can't expect teachers to improve in the absence of real practice.

: The worst student to teacher ratios in the country; near the worst per pupil funding in the US; low starting salary schedules that shortchange new teachers so the oldest teachers can be overpaid, though all do the same work; LIFO policies so that younger teachers are always fired first no matter how good they are and no matter how poor senior teachers are; teacher layoffs expected at every recession, with waves of recessions expected indefinitely; bad funding in the absence of recessions and worse funding in recessions; constant loading with additional requirements and expectations; poor and worsening teacher morale; poor and worsening working conditions; ugly architecturally uninspired facilities and often trashy temporary classrooms; inadequate learning materials, resources and technology; inadequate administrative support with the worst student / administrator ratios in the county; inadequate librarian, psychologist, behavioral specialist, counselor, nurse support due to the worst ratios; inadequate student discipline structures; and much more...