Sentences with phrase «money hiring more teachers»

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We have poured more money into schools, hired an army of new teachers to reduce class size, expanded professional development, and retained more experienced teachers — everything that the teacher unions have in mind when they repeat their mantra that we know what works and just need the resources to do it.

Instead of hiring even more teachers or paying them more money, districts are devoting an increasing share of finite resources to employee benefits.

In an ambitious study that seeks to examine state education spending down to the school level, a new analysis of K - 12 expenses in Wyoming shows that while per - pupil spending has swelled to one of the highest rates in the country, schools devoted a significant portion of their money to raising teacher salaries rather than hiring more educators.

One group of local citizens — teachers and other employees of the school district — has an intense interest in everything the district does: how much money it spends, how the money is allocated, how hiring and firing are handled, what work rules are adopted, how the curriculum is determined, which schools are to be opened and closed, and much more.

How much money is spent, and where, who is hired or fired, how we promote effective teaching, how we measure education outcomes, and more — all are affected by the relative power of the teachers unions at any given moment.

The extra money will go toward hiring more teachers for students who are learning English.

With that additional money in hand, it seems obvious that schools below the cutoff would be doing more improvements than schools above the cutoff, such as using different instructional approaches, different hiring practices, developing teachers and principals and so on.

Significantly more money from the state budget and a bigger portion of the pay of recently hired teachers» pay will go to the state teachers pension fund to make up for projected lower investment earnings.

If Henderson uses money saved by not hiring a GT coordinator to cut to train more teachers in how to enrich all classes, Henry Gradillas (still doing some teaching in Wisconsin at age 76) will approve.

Simply force - hiring more teachers isn't going to improve outcomes, and it will reinforce the «good money after bad» mantra about public education when the results of class size reduction aren't as significant as expected.

For the most part though, the unions are still throwing most of their money and manpower toward the Democrats, who have also supported policies they like — including a bill to hire nearly 300,000 more teachers, which was scuttled by Republicans in Congress.

CPS would get to keep the money, but would need to keep more buildings open and hire more teachers.

To stem the loss of students and the tax funding that follows them, Austin ISD spent $ 850,000 of taxpayer money — not to hire more teachers, improve curriculum or to develop better educational programs, but to pay for a marketing campaign.

There are also urban districts that have not done that: that have, like San Francisco, put more money into the schools serving high - need kids with a weighted student formula; that have really worked to have a better, stronger hiring process; that have put in place induction [mentoring], and stronger feedback, and teacher evaluation systems.

They oppose measures to make public schools more effective, especially smaller class sizes, because districts would need more money, and have to hire more teachers to implement them.

More than 20 percent of North Carolina teachers are chronically absent from work, state officials say, costing school districts money to hire substitutes and hurting student learning.

North Carolina's top school official says he's against asking teachers to carry guns and that the state should instead provide more money to hire police officers to make schools safer following the recent Florida school massacre.

We would be better served if we abolished all standardized testing completely, invested all the money saved into hiring more teachers, and then gave those teachers the tools to come up with the solutions to teaching in their classrooms.

Another said that low - income students would have been helped more if money had been used to achieve smaller class sizes and to provide bonuses to hire high - quality teachers..

The study found that if non-teacher hiring had matched student growth, that would save more than $ 800 billion in taxpayer money - enough to give an $ 11,000 permanent raise to every public school teacher in the country.

Rather than arming teachers, she said she would rather see money spent to reinforce school buildings with bulletproof windows and doors, to free up guidance counselors from testing duties and to hire more trained and armed school resource officers to guard campuses.