Sentences with phrase «increases for teachers»

In contrast, Senator John Hastert raised another affecting issue: new curriculum standards that cost too much for many districts and make it impossible to enact the funding increases for teachers that have already been approved (Chilton).

In 2008, Rhee — a Klein protégée, who founded the New Teacher Project after teaching in Baltimore for Teach for America — proposed huge salary increases for those teachers who would give up lifetime tenure guarantees and lockstep compensation and agree to have their performance linked to student test - score improvements.

Many school districts offer salary increases for teachers based exclusively on years of teaching experience and additional credits of education or graduate degrees.7 This sort of lack of career advancement can drive many young teachers out of the profession.

Governor Pat McCrory has signed a $ 21 billion dollar state budget that includes pay increases for teachers.

CHICAGO — The Chicago Teachers Union, or CTU, on Feb. 1 rejected Chicago Public Schools», or CPS», contract offer, which would have provided salary increases for teachers but required that they contribute fully to their pensions.

-- In one of the central disagreements of Emanuel's proposed reforms, the union says it preserved so - called «step and lane» pay increases for teachers, in which teachers receive raises for each year of service.

Pay increases for teachers in England have fallen behind the majority of other professions over the last six years, a new report has found.

He's not sure he likes Gov. Pat McCrory's idea either — a 5 percent average pay increase coupled with a return to yearly salary increases for teachers.

Poston explained to NC Policy Watch that the consortium is working with staffers in the legislature's Fiscal Research division to figure out what it would cost the state to provide pay increases for all teachers and reinstate supplemental pay for those teachers who have master's degrees, which was eliminated last year.

Gov. Pat McCrory announced Wednesday his plan to provide pay increases for all teachers and state employees, in addition to a number of education reforms that would play out beyond 2016.

The measure's defeat also isn't expected to renew support for previous voter - approved initiatives 728 and 732 — aimed at class - size reductions and cost - of - living pay increases for teachers, respectively — which were suspended by the Legislature last year.

To come up with the cash to pay for the academic changes and promised wage increases for teachers, the district's managers say resources will have to be dramatically shifted soon.

«The government must fully fund the necessary pay increases for teachers and school leaders in both England and Wales.»

However, most courts that have historically entered into educational policy areas other than funding have discouraged real structural changes, focusing instead on the continuation of past policies, such as class size reduction or across - the - board salary increases for teachers, which carry with them increased funding.

Schools Week has previously revealed how salaries for some chief executives have soared, despite the 1 per cent cap on pay increases for teachers.

In higher proportions than the rest of the nation, Californians support the Common Core academic standards and they back pay increases for teachers — unless they are told how much the average teacher earns; then they don't, an Education Next senior editor reported Thursday.

Needless to say, salary increases for teachers is hardly an issue among teachers themselves.

It urges: «The government must fully fund the necessary pay increases for teachers and school leaders in both England and Wales.»

However, one major recommendation, calling for the federal government to spend about $ 800 million a year to support salary increases for teachers who meet specified higher standards, was dropped from the final report.

It also shows that pay increases for teachers across England have mostly trailed those received by other occupational groups since 2011.

The effect of the Triborough Amendment is significant: Edmund J. McMahon, senior fellow at the Empire Center for New York State Policy, a conservative research group, has estimated that longevity - based pay increases for teachers, guaranteed by the amendment even after contracts expire, add $ 300 million to school budgets annually.

[iii] Similar increases for teachers cost New York City $ 150 million a year [iv] and added $ 93 million to school budgets elsewhere in the state.

Unions are calling for a significant pay increase for all teachers and school leaders to begin to address the decline in teachers» real pay over the last seven years.

The Government must restore the value of school staff pay to 2010 pre-austerity levels, beginning with an immediate five per cent pay increase for teachers to address the growing teacher recruitment and retention crisis.

Teacher unions representing the majority of education staff in England and Wales have submitted a joint statement calling for a significant pay increase for teachers and school leaders.

The union is also calling for pay levels which remain competitive in the longer term with other professions and reward teachers fairly; a common pay increase for all teachers, recognising that different pay awards for different groups are ineffective and demotivating; and additional government funding for all schools to help them implement the award.

Teacher unions representing the majority of education staff in England and Wales have submitted a joint statement calling for a significant pay increase for teachers and school leaders, and setting ou...

It sets out the NEU's case for a substantial pay increase for all teachers, beginning with an immediate 5 % across the board increase for all teachers which should be fully funded by the Government.

In the first group, 63 % of respondents favor a pay increase for teachers (see Figure 6).

Jules White, the West Sussex head teacher who has co-ordinated the letter to MPs, says a pay increase for teachers would be welcome, but it needs to be fully funded.

«Gov. Cooper's hypocrisy knows no bounds — he vetoed an average 9.6 percent pay increase for teachers just last year and now claims he supports teacher pay raises,» Carver said.

We'll see if lawmakers decide to institute a pay increase for teachers during the short legislative session next spring (which, incidentally, coincides with an election year.)

This week the SFCA colleges» national body agreed to increase its pay offer to match the September 2017 increase for teachers working in schools.

The Government must restore the value of school staff pay to 2010 pre-austerity levels, starting with an immediate and fully - funded 5 % pay increase for teachers to address the growing teacher recruitment and retention crisis.

After seven years of real terms pay cuts due to the Government's public sector pay policy, unions want the Government to make a significant pay increase for all teachers and school leaders.

The National Education Union is calling for a significant pay increase for teachers to help address the growing crisis in teacher recruitment and retention, pay teachers fairly and help deliver the best possible education for pupils.

«This budget has an average five percent pay increase for all teachers, honoring the commitment that we made back in February to get our starting teacher salaries up to regional competitiveness in the first year and to more or less the national average in the second year,» said Tillis at a press conference Tuesday morning to promote his budget proposal.

State lawmakers in the Senate have released their budget plan, which includes the finer details of how they would pay for an 11 percent salary increase for teachers who agree to forego tenure protections.

Rosselló delivered a televised address in early February announcing a package of educational reforms he'd like to bring to the island — including charters, vouchers for private schools, and the first pay increase for teachers in a decade.

We will submit detailed evidence separately from each of our organisations which will clearly demonstrate that there is an urgent need for a significant pay increase for all teachers and school leaders.

It supports the NEU's case for a substantial pay increase for all teachers, beginning with an immediate 5 % across the board increase for all teachers which should be fully funded by the Government.

The board of Lusher charter school approved a one - time $ 600 salary increase for teachers and administrators, including CEO Kathy Riedlinger, for a total cost of $ 72,000 next year, according to a report on Saturday's board meeting by Yomi Akinyemi of The Lens.

Another component, allowing the multiplier factor to increase for teachers with 30 years or more of experience, meant that teachers suddenly became three times more likely to retire with 30.5 years of experience than with 29.5.

So far they've discussed a 2 - percent increase for teachers.

Not exact matches

Thanks to sports» increasing value over the past two decades, Teachers» was able to parlay a $ 50 - million investment in 1994 for a 49 % stake in the Maple Leafs and Maple Leaf Gardens, one of the biggest, most profitable sports companies in the world, selling its stake for $ 1.32 billion.

«We have dramatically increased access to school options for Newark families, provided grants directly to teachers at 37 schools, given 300,000 books to Newark students through the My Very Own Library program, and just recently, we committed to a $ 1 million initiative to improve early childhood education in Newark,» the foundation said in a statement to CNBC.

Last year the Ontario Teachers Pension Fund bought one of Spain's largest funeral businesses from 3i Group, a British private - equity firm, for # 117m, and increased its stake in a French equivalent.

[74] In 2008, Corzine approved a law that increased the retirement age from 60 to 62, required that government workers and teachers earn $ 7,500 per year to qualify for a pension, eliminated Lincoln's Birthday as a state worker holiday, allowed the state to offer incentives not to take health insurance and required municipal employees work 20 hours per week to get health benefits.

Students, teachers and parents called for an increase in mental health services and more school counselors on Monday night during a discussion of gun violence held in Delray Beach.

That program, criticized by the state's teachers union as a voucher program, would increase by $ 3.35 million to make $ 8.85 million available for scholarships.