Sentences with phrase «huge benefits to teachers»

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In a recent Education Next article, «Golden Handcuffs,» we talked about winners and losers in teacher pension systems, and about the huge costs these systems impose on mobile teachers due to the back - loading of benefits.

Funding for teacher assistants took yet another huge hit last year in order to pay for the teacher raises, which largely benefited new teachers, and classroom supplies — especially textbooks — continued to languish.

But ambiguous actions like «provide for effective teacher hiring and recruitment... and retention practices» leaves one wondering if this is just a euphemism for salary and benefit increases (at the same time the district is offering every single parcel of «excess» property it owns for sale in an effort to balance it's huge budget deficit, really?).

The benefit extends beyond the individual, and will ripple through their schools, as well as the organisations they work with during their sabbatical; our teachers have a huge amount to offer!

Moreover, as with defending job security as a cheaper way to attract decent teachers, defined - benefit pension plans have big downsides with hidden costs: They make it unappealing for a talented person to work as a teacher for just part of a career, make it hard for teachers to move around, offer huge bonuses to older teachers who don't add any special value, etc. (And this is all viewing education in isolation — committing future taxpayers to pay for pensions teachers are earning now is going to mean spending less on other priorities in the future.