Sentences with phrase «for teacher incentives»

Title II, Part A funds can also, as part of an overall strategy to improve teacher quality, be used for teacher incentives — for example, to provide stipends for teachers recruited for hard - to - fill positions or to retain teachers who have been effective in helping low - achieving students succeed — or for the salaries of master teachers who provide or coordinate professional - development services for other teachers.

Cuomo on Wednesday is also expected to outline an aggressive education reform agenda that will include a push for more charter schools and additional funding for them, tougher teacher evaluation standards, and money for teacher incentives.

The participating schools have spent significant time refining a shared evaluation program such that it meets local and state regulations (New York and New Jersey) and federal guidelines for the Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF — the program through which the PICCS project is funded).

The Obama administration has used federal money for the Teacher Incentive Fund, Race to the Top and School Improvement Grant program to encourage policymakers in states and districts to adopt new teacher evaluations that incorporate student test scores, despite the controversy surrounding them.

The stopgap spending plan also provides $ 400 million for the Teacher Incentive Fund and $ 535 million for School Improvement Grants.

We also urge Senators to increase funding to the fiscal year 2015 levels for the Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) grants and the School Improvement Grants (SIG).

Not exact matches

[74] In 2008, Corzine approved a law that increased the retirement age from 60 to 62, required that government workers and teachers earn $ 7,500 per year to qualify for a pension, eliminated Lincoln's Birthday as a state worker holiday, allowed the state to offer incentives not to take health insurance and required municipal employees work 20 hours per week to get health benefits.

Frances, At least in Canada, the ability to arrange for deferred compensation schemes is limited by various provisions of the Tax Act which prevent the deferral of income into future years in most circumstances (there are exceptions, for example, for teachers who take, for example 3 years of salary over 4 years and take a year's sabatical or for various incentive compensation schemes, although I doubt those would work for athletes).

We need more incentives for well - qualified teachers to make a long - term commitment to teach disadvantaged children.

But I think there might be a way to work in some behavioral incentives like earning privileges for meeting with the gym teacher or doing activities with other kids.

Many teaching and training systems are based on the school of hard knocks; many systems involve the deliberate use of corporal punishment — for incentive, or to assert the authority of school and teacher over the pupil.

The latest fight between the Buffalo Teachers Federation and Buffalo Public Schools is heating up, this time over incentives like ice cream socials to persuade kids to take state - mandated tests and threats of punishment for those who don't.

De Blasio is also is calling for an overhaul of housing programs and tax incentives to spur the construction of tens of thousands of apartments for poor New Yorkers, as well as teachers, firefighters and other workers, who increasingly find themselves priced out of a booming real estate market and rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods.

Given that most are keen to work for the betterment of their students, teachers take offence at the idea that they would work any harder due to financial incentives.

A Centre for Economic Performance report by the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) found there had been an incentive effect for those teachers gaining above - average performance related pay, but that this was offset «by a more widespread demotivating effect arising from difficulties of measuring performance fairly».

The Cambridge University research for the NUT found a «noticeable change in the climate of schooling» as some teachers offered incentives such as snacks or «credits» towards a day off school in a bid to encourage unruly pupils to pay more attention in the classroom.

It is also endangering tens of millions of dollars in federal Teacher Incentive Fund grants earmarked for its teachers, because it has not adopted a system which recognizes and highlights great teaching.

In order to ensure that the best teachers are hired and retained in the classrooms in which they are needed most, he proposed offering full tuition as an incentive to top CUNY and SUNY students who pledge in return to serve as public school teachers for a minimum of 5 years.

While teachers who took advantage of the incentive will collect their fatter pensions for decades to come, the incentive program was branded a failure and is now history.

Joined by area politicians and community leaders, the parents, students and teachers rallied in support of the Education Investment Tax Credit which would increase support for public and religious schools by creating a tax incentive for individuals and corporations to donate to scholarship programs administered by nonprofit educational organizations.

In the report, StudentsFirstNY also presents recommendations for New York City schools including financial incentives for retaining effective teachers and an agreement between the City and the teachers» union on a new teacher evaluation system.

Still, another offered incentives for field trips — but only to those who took the state test, said Philip Rumore, president of the Buffalo teachers union.

UFT President Michael Mulgrew said that while the mayor was right to sound the alarm, he is ignoring potential cost - saving measures, including a retirement incentive for senior teachers, more oversight over DOE contracts, and a commitment to filling open positions with teachers from the ATR pool.

Mulgrew said that while the mayor was right to sound the alarm, he was ignoring potential cost - saving measures, including a retirement incentive for senior teachers, more oversight over DOE no - bid contracts, and a commitment to filling open positions with teachers from the ATR pool.

Cuomo is projecting a 3.8 percent increase for school aid, which amounts to about $ 807 million, including formula - based aid to districts and targeted funding streams for pre-kindergarten, after - school programs and merit incentives for teachers.

The task force recommends that the state invest $ 23 million in the continuation and expansion of P - TECH schools as well as making them permanent in state statute, increasing BOCES participation and incentives for teachers to join such vocational schools, and investing $ 12 million to continue and expand early college high schools as well as make them permanent in state statute.

The governor also proposed a financial incentive for implementing the program, announcing that he would limit his $ 500 million «School Performance Incentive Program» to schools where teachers and principals were beinincentive for implementing the program, announcing that he would limit his $ 500 million «School Performance Incentive Program» to schools where teachers and principals were beinIncentive Program» to schools where teachers and principals were being graded.

Last week in his 2014 State of the State speech, Gov. Andrew Cuomo pitched a teacher incentive plan, which could total more than $ 6 million for «highly effective» teachers from Riverhead to Oysterponds.

According to him, providing the right incentives and training are the necessary ingredients for improving the quality of teachers.

Some of the excellent new teachers the nation needs, Vasquez noted at a Washington, D.C., briefing, could be postdocs attracted into the classroom partially by a desire to pass on the excitement of science but also by new programs that could provide incentives such as higher pay and opportunities for continued participation in research.

«Early retirement incentives for teachers don't hurt — might help — test scores.»

This is something which has been very well documented and mourned in a report from the National Academy of Sciences that was issued by a committee headed by Norman Augustine just a few months ago and this report — which is called «he Gathering Storm» — lays out in some detail the concern that that [leaves us] with a long hole over the next couple of decades, because of weaknesses in [the] way we fund basic physical sciences, the way we are training people to do physical sciences, the way we treat science in elementary and high - school programs — all of those factors, the way we pay teachers, the way we use the patent system where we try to provide incentives in some of the physical sciences; we are losing our leadership gradually to other countries, especially in Europe and [of] particular concern in Asia, where the rise of science in, particularly China, to a certain extent India and other parts of Southeast Asia, are cause for long - term concern.

This provides a financial incentive for teachers to continue delivering the best standards of education in the classroom, because this will provide great teachers with incentives to remain as teachers rather than taking management responsibilities which come with larger salaries.

Short - term contracts are an established part of the education labour market, and the benefits that come with this way of working should be promoted as an incentive for qualified and experienced teachers to stay within the profession rather than walking away.

Pensions have acted as a strong incentive for late career teachers nearing the prescribed retirement age to stay in the classroom, «pulling» teachers to stay in the system.

It will take a lot to make public schools more effective for all students: greater academic rigor, higher standards of conduct, more parental involvement, meaningful professional development for teachers, stronger incentives for the students themselves, and, of course, more access to health and social services for the many students who are in need of such.

The districts must hold administrators responsible for their decisions and set incentives for them that parallel those for teachers.

New York City, with the nation's largest public school system, is also using incentives for educators, mostly in the form of bonuses for principals and teachers.

Contemporary teacher preparation imposes nearly all of the costs on candidates by forcing them into a system of training that removes key incentives for quality and relevance in teacher preparation.

These spikes act as an incentive for teachers to stay in the classroom until their pension wealth reaches its peak and then push them into retirement shortly thereafter, as pension wealth accumulation turns negative.

For unions, however, it means that administrators make decisions about where, when, and how teachers do their work and how incentives are structured - which is unacceptable.

And they create an incentive for teachers with scores just below the «highly effective» threshold, because scoring above it makes them eligible for a significant increase in pay.

That incentive is sabotaged, however, by teachers and aides who run off copies for those teachers who choose not to use e-mail,» George noted.

These pension plans reward longevity with an employer, creating economic incentives for high - quality teachers to stay in the profession.

We look at teacher retention during the second year of IMPACT, when the threat of dismissal for «minimally effective» teachers became newly credible and financial incentives for «highly effective» teachers could be made permanent.

Create incentives for outstanding students and career changers to enter teacher education at doctoral universities.

For merit pay to improve student outcomes, teachers must face strong incentives to improve their performance.

As education is a public good and requires public funding, proposed structures should be measured by the incentives they will create for schools, districts, and teachers to produce great student outcomes at reasonable expense.

Performance incentives may cause schools and teachers to redirect their efforts toward the least costly ways of raising test scores, at the expense of actions that do not boost scores but may be important for students» long - term welfare.

In the school with more teachers, the diffusion of responsibility for test - score gains across many teachers may erode the incentive that any individual teacher has to increase effort in the classroom.