Sentences with phrase «hiring more teachers for»

By contrast, the U.S. system spends a lot of resources on keeping class sizes relatively small, and hiring more teachers for them.

The extra money will go toward hiring more teachers for students who are learning English.

But Connelly changed things, reducing English and math class sizes to an average of sixteen students, hiring more teachers for core subjects («I buy teachers — I don't buy test coordinators,» she states), and switching to mastery grading.

Not exact matches

More than 190 representing both Christian and Jewish denominations received the waivers from the mid-1970s through the late 1990s, seeking permission, for example, to only hire male teachers for certain positions or to sanction students or employees who had sex outside marriage.

Recruits, hires, trains, places, and manages substitute teachers and school support staff for more than 250 client schools.

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.

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.

New York City's charter school sector appears to have secured a significant victory in the 11th hour of the Legislative session Wednesday night, with a set of regulations that will make it much easier for large charter networks to hire more uncertified teachers.

(CNN)- A surrogate for Mitt Romney's campaign said Monday the presumptive GOP nominee was taken out of context when he argued against the idea of hiring more fire fighters, police and teachers on the taxpayer dime.

The researchers say the findings point to the value for schools of recruiting and hiring more teachers of color.

Core academic requirements, parent or student preferences for electives and the financial burden of hiring more teachers can limit opportunities to expand health education courses.

Although the demand for teachers also depends on policies such as class size and the use of technology, this increase in retirement - eligible teachers may well portend the need to hire more teachers in upcoming years.

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.

TNTP began documenting these trends more than a decade ago, but the process through which teachers are hired largely remains a blind spot for education reform.

In 1999, Saint Louis offered retroactive improvement in pension benefits that cost the city $ 166 million, or $ 52,000 per teacher, in 2013 dollars, and promised far more valuable pension benefits for future hires.

All this would, in turn, lead to more effectively run school systems, a more sane hiring process for teachers, and better outcomes for kids.

Once new teachers are hired, Peltier - Glaze continued, principals can use numerous strategies to keep them for more than a year or two, such as:

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

Yes, they say, we hired more teachers, but that was for more special education students and you couldn't expect that to result in any progress.

A new study finds that teachers hired during recession periods are more effective in math than teachers who are hired in more secure times because stronger applicants apply for teaching jobs when the economy is not doing well.

The teachers then walked out anyway, on behalf of an agenda that included, depending on who was talking, more funds for textbooks, non-teaching staff, and salaries; changes in Oklahoma's capital gains tax rate; other changes in the tax code; new hires at the State Department of Education, and more.

One way to address these gaps would be to scramble for funding to fill them with more of the same: hire more teachers and more guidance counselors.

Although better principals may also attract and hire more - effective teachers, the absence of reliable quality measures for new teachers and the fact that many principals have little control over new hires lead us to focus specifically on turnover.

Instead, they walked out anyway, demanding that the state dramatically boost taxes on income and / or services, raise pay for non-teaching staff, hire more teachers, spend more on school maintenance, and so forth.

Remember that my test for whether school choice raises demand for certain teacher characteristics is two-fold: 1) whether a school that faces stronger competition hires teachers with more of a certain characteristic; and 2) whether that characteristic earns a premium in an environment of greater school choice.

In Nevada's Clark County, teachers with more than 30 years of experience actually earn substantially less total compensation than a novice teacher: the loss in retirement payments for such a teacher who remains employed another year is more than the difference between his salary and that of a newly hired teacher.

But for the past few years, DPS has treated the innovation school authorization process much like the charter authorization process, and new innovation schools have looked far more like charters — with a year to plan, clear visions and strategies, and careful hiring of teachers.

Those that do provide AP courses today only offer a fraction of the 34 courses for which AP exams are available, because they lack the resources to hire more AP teachers or there is not enough student demand to justify a dedicated course and teacher.

The Parent Teacher Organization invested $ 600, mostly for pots and pans, since the kitchen had been mostly reheating prepared foods, The program was so successful that increased sales allowed the hiring of more staff, making it sustainable after Connolly stopped cooking.

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.

There are smarter, better ways to approach the challenge at hand: expand the hiring pool beyond recent college graduates; staff schools in ways that squeeze more value out of talented teachers; and use technology to make it easier for teachers to be highly effective.

The First Step towards Achieving Educational Equity for Black Students Must Be Hiring More Black Teachers

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Similarly, San Jose will need to hire at least 40 teachers with intern credentials this September, about a dozen more than for the past school year.

The Chicago school system, the nation's third largest, hired 2,236 new teachers for the 2000 - 01 school year — up by more than 300 from last year, according to data released this month.

Significantly more money from the state budget and a bigger portion of the pay of recently hired teachers» pay will go to the state teachers pension fund to make up for projected lower investment earnings.

It just means more hiring, then laying off the same teachers and punishing taxpayers who needlessly pay for a bloated workforce.

At the time the budget was presented to the school board, almost $ 11 million was needed for new programs like hiring more counselors, social workers, and psychologists, and adding more teachers for the academically and intellectually gifted programs.

In 2000, more than 30 grassroots groups and foundations found common ground and agitated successfully for contractual changes that made it easier for schools to fill teaching vacancies with outside hires and harder for unwanted teachers with seniority to bump talented first - year teachers from the classroom.

For example, the IDOE provides a web - based recruitment portal to provide streamlined sharing of teacher candidate information for more thoughtful hiring practices, as well as encourages high standards for preparation and licensure in addition to «transition to teaching» programs such as the Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowships, Teach For America, and TNTP's Indianapolis Teaching Fellows.51 Notably, teacher candidates must pass three subject - specific assessments before entering an educator preparation program (EPP), and EPPs must report extensive data collected on teachers using data matrix reportiFor example, the IDOE provides a web - based recruitment portal to provide streamlined sharing of teacher candidate information for more thoughtful hiring practices, as well as encourages high standards for preparation and licensure in addition to «transition to teaching» programs such as the Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowships, Teach For America, and TNTP's Indianapolis Teaching Fellows.51 Notably, teacher candidates must pass three subject - specific assessments before entering an educator preparation program (EPP), and EPPs must report extensive data collected on teachers using data matrix reportifor more thoughtful hiring practices, as well as encourages high standards for preparation and licensure in addition to «transition to teaching» programs such as the Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowships, Teach For America, and TNTP's Indianapolis Teaching Fellows.51 Notably, teacher candidates must pass three subject - specific assessments before entering an educator preparation program (EPP), and EPPs must report extensive data collected on teachers using data matrix reportifor preparation and licensure in addition to «transition to teaching» programs such as the Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowships, Teach For America, and TNTP's Indianapolis Teaching Fellows.51 Notably, teacher candidates must pass three subject - specific assessments before entering an educator preparation program (EPP), and EPPs must report extensive data collected on teachers using data matrix reportiFor America, and TNTP's Indianapolis Teaching Fellows.51 Notably, teacher candidates must pass three subject - specific assessments before entering an educator preparation program (EPP), and EPPs must report extensive data collected on teachers using data matrix reporting.

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

Raymond hand - picked the principals for the schools, gave them full hiring authority, created positions for additional teacher coaches and site administrators, provided extra training and time for collaboration, and gave the schools more latitude to choose their curriculum.

There is a growing body of research, qualitative and quantitative, about the need for more Black male teachers and the challenges of retaining them once hired.

For more than three years, the de Blasio Administration has promised that forced placement of teachers was not an option and that principals would be able to decide which teachers were hired into their schools.

Part of the state's plan to improve Priority and Focus Schools (schools that have consistently low test scores) include removing ineffective principals or giving them mentors from better performing schools, implementing anti-bullying programs or other programs to improve school culture, improving recruiting and hiring techniques for teachers and providing more teacher development.

The cuts fall hardest on new and future teachers, particularly for teachers hired after the recession who do not plan to teach in the same state for 30 or more years.

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

I see more use for a study that related credential requirements of new hire teachers to student performance.

But at the same time, states are hiring younger and more transient teachers who can be paid lower salaries and often leave before qualifying for a large or even moderate pension.