Sentences with phrase «good teachers the pay raise»

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.

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In short, there may be a good case for raising the pay of some teachers — such as those in fields or schools that are difficult to staff or who are exceptionally effective in the classroom.

We have raised pay for educators and created incentive programs for teachers and principals that help us attract the best talent to our schools.

Against this backdrop, it's tough for Republican governors to insist, «Well, sure, our party's leaders in Washington can find huge dollars for tax cuts and defense, but we can't afford a pay raise for struggling, hard - working teachers.»

It examines finance questions such as who pays the college tuition, and it raises questions of program quality, such as the mechanisms for ensuring well - trained teachers and rigorous courses.

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.

Even if they succeed in getting more funding for public education, there is a good chance that it will not result in substantial pay raises for teachers.

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More than a few eyebrows were raised when School Board member - elect Monica Ratliff appeared at a Thursday Educators for Excellence (E4E) event and seemed to signal support for some kind of a test - based pay system to attract and keep good teachers in LA classrooms.

Beginning teachers would see their starting base pay bumped up from $ 33,000 to $ 35,000 — making good on a promise made to teachers last year when GOP lawmakers said they'd raise starting teacher pay up over a two year period from a career - entry salary of $ 30,800 to $ 35,000.

So far, the General Assembly has made good on about half of that, raising beginning teacher pay up to $ 33,000 last year.

In Oklahoma, meanwhile, teachers who have not received a raise from the state in a decade have declared they will go on strike on April 2 if the Legislature does not act to increase their pay as well as overall education budgets.

Teachers should be paid more — but they should have to prove their value before getting big raises or better positions.

The superintendents were encouraged by the prospect of a teacher pay raise as well as the Career Pathways plan that is contained in both the Governor's budget as well as the House plan.

About $ 50 million of a 2010 gift from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg helped pay for provisions in the five - year contract, including higher base salaries for all Newark teachers plus annual raises for teachers who are rated well under a new evaluation system.

After years of frozen salaries, the busy 2014 session saw large pay bumps for beginning teachers and relatively small raises for veteran teachers — but those raises came at the expense of teacher assistants and classroom supplies as well as cuts to other critical areas of education spending.

It's good for kids if we raise taxes to pay teachers a lot more money.

When former Gov. Mitch Daniels and then State Superintendent for Public Instruction Tony Bennett pushed a massive overhaul of teacher evaluation through the legislature in 2011, the promise was a bold new system that would reward the best teachers, weed out the worst and for the first time tie pay raises to student test scores.

«If you ask most good teachers if they'd rather have tenure or a pay raise, they would swap tenure for a pay raise every time.

Since teachers were not allowed to be married in many places, women would leave to raise families and men would leave for better paying jobs.

Apart from raising teacher pay, we should expand the use of other strategies to attract talent, such as forgivable tuition loans, service fellowships, hardship pay for the most - challenging settings (an approach that works well in the military and the foreign service), and housing and child - care subsidies for teachers, many of whom can't afford to live in the communities in which they teach.

A November 2013 Mathematica study conducted for the Institute of Education Sciences within the U.S. Department of Education shows that paying good teachers $ 20,000 to transfer to a low performing elementary school raised the test scores of students by 4 to 10 percentile points.

In addition, standards for teacher education programs were strengthened, and states like Connecticut and North Carolina, which undertook large - scale, comprehensive reforms, turned shortages into surpluses of much better trained, better supported, and better (and more equitably) paid teachers, while substantially raising achievement and reducing achievement gaps.

«Once we launch (the RFP), we'll see how many people are actually out there,» Bennett said, noting the many potential challenges for charter school proposers include finding a building to operate in, hiring staff, picking a curriculum and raising start - up money to buy equipment and supplies and to pay teachers and staff before state aid payments would start arriving, well after the school opens.