Sentences with phrase «giving teachers a pay raise»

Lawmakers worked through the night to pass a state budget that gives teachers a pay raise and schools a funding bump.

Gov. Jim Justice signed legislation Wednesday giving teachers a pay raise, but educators said it wasn't enough and it didn't address other areas of concern like insurance and health care costs, so they went on strike.

For months now, Senate leaders have made it very clear that they want to give teachers pay raises.

Responding in English, White said giving teachers guns was not necessary and that the state should instead give teachers a pay raise.

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The United Federation of Teachers, for example, was granted back pay in the form of 8 - percent wage increases because Bloomberg gave similar raises to other unions but not the teachers when he was inTeachers, for example, was granted back pay in the form of 8 - percent wage increases because Bloomberg gave similar raises to other unions but not the teachers when he was inteachers when he was in office.

On the proposal to give raises to teachers who oversee high - performing students, he said: «I couldn't believe that the governor of New York proposed merit pay.

Members of the United Federation of Teachers today ratified by a more than 3 to 1 margin a new contract that gives members an 18 percent pay raise, including full retroactive pay.

Or rebuild the crumbling school infrastructure, create scholarships for the next generation of scientists and engineers, and finally give good teachers the pay raise they deserve.

Back in their classrooms after a nearly three - week strike that ended just before Thanksgiving, teachers in Billings, Mont., approved a hard - fought contract last week that will give them 2.5 percent pay raises and additional help with health insurance.

If we pay some of that money to our best teachers for taking in more students, we accomplish three goals at once — we save money, we get more students in classrooms with highly effective teachers, and we give our best teachers a real raise, not just for being good, but for taking on more work.

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If teachers unions find the new technologies demeaning or threatening, perhaps they will finally get serious about working to raise teacher pay, compensate high performers accordingly, and give up their small classes in return.

If eligible teachers don't take advantage of the 4 - year contracts in order to hold onto tenure and their due process rights, they also give up a real chance at pay raises — the first they have seen in years.

In reforming teacher pay scale, districts should also consider giving fixed - dollar raises rather than a percentage increase.

Four superintendents from North Carolina's largest school districts came together Tuesday to express their concerns about lawmakers» 2014 budget proposals, as the legislature comes close to giving teachers the first significant pay raise they've seen in years — ...

As budget discussions move forward, we're hopeful the legislature will follow the Governor's lead to fund what works, give teachers a much needed pay raise and support schools that get results.»

House Speaker Thom Tillis (R - Mecklenberg) unveiled his party's revised budget proposal for 2014, which includes an average five percent raise for teachers without forcing them to give up their career status — but he plans to pay for...

A hidden piece of the school finance equation is private money raised by parent organizations, funds that give schools flexibility to pay for additional supplies, field trips, and classroom teachers.

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.

Senate proposes cutting more than 8,500 * teacher assistant positions Senate leaders unveiled portions of a 2015 - 17 budget proposal Monday that gives teachers an average four percent pay raise and lowers class sizes in the early grades — but much...

In 2012, they gave a 1.2 percent across the board raise, and then in 2013 once again they offered teachers no bump in pay at all.

Four superintendents from North Carolina's largest school districts came together Tuesday to express their concerns about lawmakers» 2014 budget proposals, as the legislature comes close to giving teachers the first significant pay raise they've seen in years — but not without asking them for significant sacrifices.

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Under Bennett, the state offered a model compensation system that angered unions because it gave districts a mechanism to pay considerable portions of teacher raises as one - time bonuses instead of permanent pay raises.

House Speaker Thom Tillis (R - Mecklenberg) unveiled his party's revised budget proposal for 2014, which includes an average five percent raise for teachers without forcing them to give up their career status — but he plans to pay for the teachers» raises with revenues from the state's lottery.

The courts also rejected lawmakers» proposal to offer some tenured teachers fatter pay raises and four - year contracts in exchange for giving up their tenure before 2018.

And most of them, if not all of them, will tell you that it has very little to do with student results,» said Sen. Harry Brown, who supports giving teachers an 11 percent pay raise by eliminating teacher assistants in the second and third grades.

«By cutting the strings attaching the raise to voluntarily giving up tenure early, we've proven just how serious we are about giving teachers the largest pay raise in state history,» Sen. Education Committee Chairman Jerry Tillman, R - Randolph.

Of the 72 % of members who support a proposed North Carolina law that would give teachers an 11 % pay raise in exchange for electing to give up tenure, 32 % would elect to participate if given the chance.

State lawmakers still can't come to an agreement over how large of a pay raise they want to give public school teachers.

But lead negotiators say they're proud of what the General Assembly has accomplished, including giving teachers what they consider to be a much - needed pay raise.

I did not approve of the General Assembly not paying future teachers with a master's higher pay, nor did I fully like not giving veteran teachers a raise so that newer teacher beginning salaries would be higher than they ever were under Democratic leadership

Unlike McCrory's plan, House lawmakers also propose giving all other teachers an across - the - board pay raise of two percent, along with state employees.

Jewell says his organization, which is the state's largest teacher advocacy group, supports Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's education budget proposal, which would give teachers an eight percent average pay raise.

Gould says he understood Brown's argument that Republican state lawmakers have given teachers consecutive pay raises, but he thinks they can and should do more.

Furthermore, would you ever pay that given the credibility issues raised by the teacher?