Sentences with phrase «money on teacher salaries»

From a broader policy perspective, our estimates suggest that ERI programs could be beneficial for school districts, saving them money on teacher salaries without harming student achievement.

Not exact matches

Using the one teacher for several schools in certain subjects would save money on salaries, according to the report.

During the summer, teachers are either teaching summer school for a meager amount of money over what they earn during the school year, or they are paying money for continuing improvement courses that they can not afford on their teacher's salary.

That's a lot of money, especially on a teacher's salary, but we're here to help.

Districts had to «allocate forty per cent of the monies for teacher compensation increases based on performance and employment related expenses, twenty per cent of the monies for teacher base salary increases and employment related expenses and forty per cent of the monies for maintenance and operation purposes.»

But the money has in fact been spent to keep school employees on the payroll, while ensuring that teachers» salaries climb upward with each year of experience, and giving those with a master's degree a bonus.

The state calculates the money associated with each teacher and instructional - support unit for every school based on four factors: the costs of teacher salaries, employee benefits, classroom support, and other current expenses.

And for those who say we can't afford to pay teachers a decent wage, I ask them to consider how much money we spend on national defense each year and the size of salaries and bonuses that are paid each year to the many thousands who work on Wall Street.

Money currently spent on rewarding teachers for valueless credentials could be used to increase starting salaries, a policy goal espoused by nearly all interested parties, from education reformers to teachers unions.

«Parents have a right to know that their children have access to the best possible education and support at school — and that money for teachers and equipment isn't instead being spent on first class train tickets or topping up chief executive salaries.

3) The public thinks less money should be spent on class - size reduction relative to the amount spent on teacher salaries or new books and technologies, if they are told the relative price of each intervention.

Because the salaries of senior teachers are much higher than those of newcomers (usually by more than $ 25,000 / teacher), districts have to spend a lot more money on the schools where senior teachers cluster — and they fund this by spending a lot less on the schools that senior teachers avoid.

«They hired six new teachers that year and pink - slipped us on the third day of school because they lost the money they had in the budget to pay our salaries,» Picoult remembers.

Along the same lines, parents (53 %) are also more likely than the public (46 %) to think money should be spent on reducing class size rather than increasing teacher salaries or buying new books and technologies — unless they are told the relative cost of each policy.

Financially, it costs school districts money to recruit and train new teachers, so an increase in retention rates would let them save on those costs (although they have to pay more experienced teachers hirer salaries).

Arizona and Oklahoma do spend proportionately on K - 12 than many other states do, but there's still lots of money there for teacher salaries.

Beyer said she is concerned that the budget does not increase teachers supplements, money some districts pay teachers on top of their state salaries, which leaves DPS at risk of falling even further behind the Wake and Chapel Hill - Carrboro school systems.

The amount of money spent on these tests could be used for teacher salaries and other support staff and services to children.

I spoke with a teacher the other day — salary under $ 60k and had already spent $ 5k of her own money on school supplies for her kids.

* In most states, charter school districts reported spending less money per pupil than traditional public schools on instruction, student support services and teacher salaries.

Corporate America wants in on the $ $ $ going to public education and teacher's salaries and retirement monies are just some of the areas that they want to decrease.

«Schools are having to spend an enormous amount of money on recruitment, partly because the teacher supply agencies will seek to start a negotiation saying «we want 20 per cent of the teacher's salary for them to come and work with you».»

She said more money should be focused on teacher salaries to attract «the best and the brightest» teachers to Madison public schools.

In doing so the post not only accepts the superficial OECD data on salaries (when there are far better studies here in the U.S. of what teachers actually earn), but it also assumes that teachers could have earned more money doing something else.

An analysis by Georgetown University's Edunomics Lab recently suggested that, at least in theory, districts could save money and improve student learning by offering the most effective teachers higher salaries to take on slightly larger classes.

Nearly every teacher in the state gets a base salary from the state, and local school districts also typically add in some money on top of that.

In our new report, «The Pension Pac - Man: How Pension Debt Eats Away at Teacher Salaries,» we show that, like the proverbial Pac - Man, the rapidly rising costs of teacher retirement and insurance benefits are pushing out money that could be spent on salaries (Figure 1 from the Teacher Salaries,» we show that, like the proverbial Pac - Man, the rapidly rising costs of teacher retirement and insurance benefits are pushing out money that could be spent on salaries (Figure 1 from theSalaries,» we show that, like the proverbial Pac - Man, the rapidly rising costs of teacher retirement and insurance benefits are pushing out money that could be spent on salaries (Figure 1 from the teacher retirement and insurance benefits are pushing out money that could be spent on salaries (Figure 1 from thesalaries (Figure 1 from the paper).

«On a teacher's salary I didn't have a lot of money so between parts I had and my own skills I felt I could make it nice,» he says.

Depending on where you are teaching, ESL teachers often can save up to half of their salary (albeit not a 6 - figure salary), but money that can be put towards budget travel nonetheless.

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