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.»
Not exact matches
And public unions such as
teacher's unions don't just extract
money from the state they do labor too (like teaching our kids), and, like other unions, they unionize to negotiate
for better
compensation and look out
for their own interests, like just about every union out there does.
Denver's Professional
Compensation for Teachers (ProComp) plan, widely heralded as the leading national example of performance pay, awards more
money for earning another degree than
for demonstrated performance in the classroom.
Districts and states could use the
money to restore cuts to K - 12 and higher education to cover the cost of
compensation and benefits
for teachers and other employees.
This does not mean that OUSD
teachers should be penalized
for their benefits package, but it is important to recognize that the
money spent on these benefits is a key part of
compensation — especially given the tumultuous national healthcare context.
She was the co-lead author of It's More Than
Money; Tying Earning to Learning: The Link Between
Teacher Compensation and Student Learning Objectives; Focus on Literacy: Professional Development Audit; Catalyst for Change (the summative Denver report on performance - based compensation); and New Directions in Christina (the summative report on systemic reform in Delaware's larges
Compensation and Student Learning Objectives; Focus on Literacy: Professional Development Audit; Catalyst
for Change (the summative Denver report on performance - based
compensation); and New Directions in Christina (the summative report on systemic reform in Delaware's larges
compensation); and New Directions in Christina (the summative report on systemic reform in Delaware's largest district).
He has been the lead or co-lead author of numerous evaluations (including It's More Than
Money, Catalyst
for Change, and Pathway to Results, the first comprehensive, longitudinal evaluative studies of the impact of performance - based
compensation on student achievement,
teacher effectiveness and systems change) and articles, and provides briefings to members of the U.S. Congress, the U.S. Department of Education, state legislatures and departments of education, and the media.
We should be clear that we believe that OUSD
teachers should not be penalized
for their benefits package, but it is important to recognize that the
money spent on these benefits is a key form of
compensation.
And there are a lot of different ways to differentiate, but I do know based on the work I've done
for 20 - some years, it will cost more
money, and if you're not willing to invest more into
compensation systems, it's a really difficult challenge to find a different way of paying [
teachers].»