Sentences with phrase «issues of teacher salaries»

The contract talks have been particularly tense in recent weeks as the two sides attempted to find common ground on the key issues of teacher salaries, work rules and health insurance.

We observe a similar difference on the issue of teacher salaries.

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Suswam, while addressing some members of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) in the area, defended his government, saying that the non-payment of workers» salaries was a global issue and not peculiar to Benue state.

By making teacher seniority an issue the mayor would be able to control which teachers get to teach and rid himself of senior teachers who are due raltively high salaries and expensive benefits.

The chief obstacle to resolving these issues has been the difficulty of separating the effects of teachers» salary levels from their working conditions and preferences.

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Teachers» salaries are being «outstripped by inflation and pay rises in the private sector», which is contributing to recruitment issues is the sector, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) has warned.

In 2012, the Center for American Progress issued its «Unequal Education» report, which analyzed the first wave of DOE per - school expenditure data that included actual teacher salaries.

Getting better - qualified teachers into California's classrooms will require improved teacher education, higher salaries for public school teachers and administrators, and elimination of emergency permits over the next five years, a state panel argues in a report issued last week.

To understand how public opinions shift, Howell and West embedded a series of experiments within the Education Next / PEPG survey by dividing respondents into randomly chosen groups: some were simply asked their opinion about school spending and teacher salaries, while others were first provided with accurate information about each of these issues.

To address this issue and make teaching in the U.S. more attractive, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has called for teacher salaries that start at $ 60,000 and eventually rise to $ 150,000 — far higher than current teacher pay in nearly all U.S. school districts.

Sen. Bruce Dammeier, a Republican from Puyallup who has worked on several plans to address the teacher salary issue this year, said he too thinks the best course of action right now is to designate a small committee of lawmakers to work on the problem.

'» Prominently featured throughout the article are the United Teachers of Los Angeles and its president, Alex Caputo - Pearl, who claims that collective bargaining is «an important tool available to fight for equity and justice» and should go beyond issues like salaries and work rules.

The union has accused the district of «refusing to bargain in good faith» on that and other issues despite, as the union asserts in its statement, LA Unified ranking last among 47 school districts in LA County in maximum teacher salary.

The goal of this issue brief was to learn more about the salaries of mid - and late - career teachers and see if wages were high enough to attract and keep the nation's most talented individuals.

The Park City School District last year brought in nearly 40 new employees and adjusted teacher salaries with an across - the - board increase of $ 7,000, resulting in a budget spike of about $ 3.4 million for this year, which was discussed at Tuesday's school board meeting, along with master planning and potential bond issues.

In public schools we spend over a third of our budget on teacher salaries, yet we tend to view teacher compensation as a separate issue from raising student achievement.

Salary issues will never go away because of false perceptions of what teachers do, so teacher organizations also need to step up and advocate for their own cause.

Compounding these issues, SAISD's low tax base has caused it to lose some of its highest performing teachers to districts with higher salaries.

He also noted that Montgomery's starting teacher salaries lag behind several Washington - area jurisdictions, which he said could be an issue as the school district prepares to hire a large number of teachers.

He has studied extensively the impact of vouchers and charter schools on educational quality, and has recently focused on differences in teacher preparation and teacher salaries across countries as well as larger issues of the impact of economic inequality on educational quality.

If there is something in the general population of teachers about a lack of «differentiated pay» in the uniform salary schedule i have not heard of it, nor has it come up as a major issue in any bargaining unit I have heard of (and I hear about a number).

Now that the teachers have a new contract that sets salaries higher than before, they are turning to other priorities, a list of issues that includes the threat of union dilution through an increase in the number of non-unionized charter schools.

The story, «Report: Salaries just «part of the solution» for Utah's teacher shortage» looks at Utah's teacher shortage issue and steps that schools and districts can do better recruit teachers.

[4] While a myriad of factors influence these two issues such as student characteristics, locale, school performance, salaries, class sizes, evaluation systems, and school accountability systems, recent research has found that principals have a profound effect on teacher retention.

The plan, which addresses the issue over a span of time (building upon each teacher's salary year by year) may not be as effective as plans in other states, like Iowa.