Sentences with phrase «increase educator salaries»
Cuts $ 163 million of federal spending on Title II, funding designed to support teachers: Sen. Alexander's bill decreases funding levels and misses an opportunity to increase investments to help states improve the teacher pipeline, increase educator salaries, offer better training and professional development, and put the teaching profession on an overall higher pedestal similar to a doctor or lawyer.
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The teachers union goal is to have at least 1,000 of the state's 100,000 teachers earn national certification, and the salary increase is a good incentive, according to Ralph Noble, president of the Georgia Association of Educators.
The 2007 teachers» contract gave educators a 4 percent salary increase, boosting their compensation well above the state average.
Teacher salaries have increased more than 42 percent in constant dollars over the past half century, while educators» working conditions, health plans, and retirement arrangements have become ever more commodious.
That information may, in some cases, be used as the basis for critical personnel decisions such as whether to dismiss an educator or increase his or her salary.
And when the district recently made public the average teacher salary increases under the new pact — ranging from 2.5 percent to 4 percent per year — it didn't include what can be lucrative raises given to educators who earn master's degrees and other graduate credits.
The issue, as Governor Rauner points out, is that districts can establish generous back - end salaries to attract educators, knowing that the increase in pension costs from those higher salaries will be picked up by the state.
While the N.C. Association of Educators and teachers have demanded increases to per pupil spending, funding is only a symptom of a larger problem.Much of the tensions between the state legislature and teachers — arising from a decline in inflation - adjusted per - pupil spending and a 10 percent decline in inflation - adjusted salaries — could have been circumvented with stronger rights for public - sector employees.
The city could have made a strong statement about the value of high - quality educators, but instead chose to keep in place a «step and lane» system that awards salary increases for years spent on the job and graduate degrees earned, even though research clearly shows that degrees have no impact on outcomes for children.
So you would think that educators on the front lines would have gotten a salary increase out of that.
The state has a salary schedule in place for educators, which includes annual step increases for all — but that schedule has been frozen since 2008.
The district announced Thursday that teachers will receive 9 percent raises, with the salary for first - year educators increased from $ 39,954 to $ 43,887.
It includes a five - year, 21.6 percent increase in base pay that will boost the average annual salary of a D.C. educator from $ 67,000 to about $ 81,000 and gives the city's public school teachers salaries comparable to those in surrounding suburban districts, according to a union survey.
Teachers in Arizona are planning their first - ever statewide walkout next Thursday to demand that state lawmakers there increase funding for K - 12 schools, a prerequisite for the salary increases educators are demanding i school districts across the state.
The Senate proposal would indeed increase salaries for educators with up to 24 years of experience (more experienced teachers receive nothing under the plan).
Officials at Educators 4 Excellence said the plan, which includes increasing salaries and forgiving loans for teachers, would help slow down the high turnover rates at struggling schools throughout the state.
«Instead, our elected leaders should be focused on how to make the schedule reflect more of a professional compensation, increase the salary cap which drives experienced educators out of the classroom, and restore pay for Master's degrees and advanced degree pay,» said Jewell.
Tiered salary schedules at each level of quality, such that early childhood educators at all levels earn increasingly higher salaries as program quality increases