Sentences with phrase «like raising teacher salaries»

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It may seem like a meaningless argument, except that such an amount is dictated by the current uniform salary schedule, which requires those below - average states to raise each teacher's salary.

Moreover, the program proved to be a highly cost - effective means of improving reading scores, especially when compared with the common alternatives, like class size reductions and raising teachers» salaries.

The study tried to determine which districts offer teachers the most «bang for the buck» by accounting for variables like districts with performance - based raises, the time it takes a teacher to climb the salary ladder and cost of living in the district.

Teachers who work in hard - to - staff schools, teach high need subjects like math or chemistry, and pursue «other opportunities for improvement» could also earn raises beyond what would be offered with the new professional salary schedule.

In a new report on the effects of the recession on teacher salaries in 41 major school districts, the National Council on Teacher Quality found that teacher raises for experience and market forces like inflation were one - third to one - half of what they were at the beginning of the recteacher salaries in 41 major school districts, the National Council on Teacher Quality found that teacher raises for experience and market forces like inflation were one - third to one - half of what they were at the beginning of the recTeacher Quality found that teacher raises for experience and market forces like inflation were one - third to one - half of what they were at the beginning of the recteacher raises for experience and market forces like inflation were one - third to one - half of what they were at the beginning of the recession.

N.C. Rep. Craig Horn, an influential budget writer from Union County who chairs the House education appropriations committee, isn't sure he likes the current salary scale for teachers, the one adopted by lawmakers two years ago that nixes annual raises for teachers in favor of a multi-tiered approach with bigger pay bumps every five years.

I did not approve of the General Assembly not paying future teachers with a master's higher pay, nor did I fully like not giving veteran teachers a raise so that newer teacher beginning salaries would be higher than they ever were under Democratic leadership

Democrats still don't like the premise of rewarding teachers based on assessment scores, and they want the Legislature to use the additional funding to instead find a way to raise the salaries of all teachers.