Sentences with phrase «larger teacher pay raises»

Senate Republicans released a plan on Wednesday to provide what they call the «largest teacher pay raise in state history.»

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Arizona's largest school district and some others will resume classes after lawmakers approved money for teacher pay raises and additional education funding.

Florida's budget troubles have left the country's fourth - largest school district unable to pay teachers for advancing on the salary schedule or to offer cost - of - living raises.

Four superintendents from North Carolina's largest school districts came together Tuesday to express their concerns about lawmakers» 2014 budget proposals, as the legislature comes close to giving teachers the first significant pay raise they've seen in years — ...

Yet the most sought - after school teachers across Wisconsin are now enjoying large pay raises, signing bonuses and what some school administrators are calling «free agency.»

The budget proposal stands in stark contrast to that of Gov. Pat McCrory's, which offers large pay increases to beginning teachers, a two percent average raises to everyone else, and a future plan to move to a new salary schedule, but that would have to be acted upon down the road.

Four superintendents from North Carolina's largest school districts came together Tuesday to express their concerns about lawmakers» 2014 budget proposals, as the legislature comes close to giving teachers the first significant pay raise they've seen in years — but not without asking them for significant sacrifices.

After years of frozen salaries, the busy 2014 session saw large pay bumps for beginning teachers and relatively small raises for veteran teachers — but those raises came at the expense of teacher assistants and classroom supplies as well as cuts to other critical areas of education spending.

«By cutting the strings attaching the raise to voluntarily giving up tenure early, we've proven just how serious we are about giving teachers the largest pay raise in state history,» Sen. Education Committee Chairman Jerry Tillman, R - Randolph.

State lawmakers still can't come to an agreement over how large of a pay raise they want to give public school teachers.

They carried the 14 heavy and large cardboard boxes to the offices of Senate Leader Phil Berger and House Speaker Thom Tillis, who are currently leading the efforts to raise teacher pay.

While it made headlines for being the largest pay raise teachers received in any state that year, it also only was enough to bring the state's declining pay back to the same level it had been before Republicans took over the Legislature.

Jewell says his organization, which is the state's largest teacher advocacy group, supports Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper's education budget proposal, which would give teachers an eight percent average pay raise.

In addition, standards for teacher education programs were strengthened, and states like Connecticut and North Carolina, which undertook large - scale, comprehensive reforms, turned shortages into surpluses of much better trained, better supported, and better (and more equitably) paid teachers, while substantially raising achievement and reducing achievement gaps.