Sentences with phrase «offers teachers pay raises»

Cache and Washington districts are the latest to offer teachers pay raises.

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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.

The offer included restoring a 5 percent reduction in teacher pay that was instituted in 2011, 2 percent raises each of the next two years and $ 2,500 bonuses for new teachers who successfully complete three years of probation.

Last week, lawmakers passed a state budget that they promised would offer teachers an average 7 percent raise — but instead of boosting all teachers» pay by a simple percentage, a new salary schedule is in place that offers younger, inexperienced teachers big gains while shortchanging veteran teachers who have gone to great lengths to build on their teaching credentials.

Lawmakers rolled longevity pay, a salary supplement offered to teachers after 10 years of service, into the new teacher pay schedule that was created to go with the teacher pay raises.

Last week, lawmakers passed a state budget that they promised would offer teachers an average 7 percent raise — but instead of boosting all teachers» pay by a simple percentage, a new salary schedule is in place that offers younger,...

They have already voted no to across the board teacher salary increases and continued the freeze on teachers» salaries that has been in place for 5 years (at the same time passed a tax break for the wealthy, and now, with reduced revenue can not give raises), increased class size, taken away additional pay for Masters degrees, eliminated most of the state's teacher assistants, gone after tenure and offered the top 25 % of the teachers in a district $ 500 to give up their tenure immediately, increased the number of charter schools (many funded by Republicans in the private school business) and finally, the most recent scheme pondered is to let kids go to any school in the state regardless of their home county.

It wasn't until 2014, an election year, that lawmakers offered teachers an average pay increase of 7 percent, with the bulk of those raises going to beginning teachers and experienced teachers getting next to nothing.

In 2012, they gave a 1.2 percent across the board raise, and then in 2013 once again they offered teachers no bump in pay at all.

Palm Springs and Desert Sands Unified school districts have offered their teachers four to five percent pay raises.

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.

It does not call for merit pay tied to student test scores, which Bloomberg has supported and the city teachers union has said it would never accept, nor does it support Bloomberg's recent proposal to offer permanent pay raises to teachers who earn top ratings on new evaluations.

Under Bennett, the state offered a model compensation system that angered unions because it gave districts a mechanism to pay considerable portions of teacher raises as one - time bonuses instead of permanent pay raises.

Charter schools appear to offer the choice and competition — which we have idealized — we believe can raise the quality of education, but increasing funding of charter schools proves to be as flawed as teacher merit pay.

The courts also rejected lawmakers» proposal to offer some tenured teachers fatter pay raises and four - year contracts in exchange for giving up their tenure before 2018.

I know when Michelle Rhee offered to almost double teacher's salaries (about 40 % pay raise) in exchange for those concessions the unions wouldn't allow members to even vote.

One of the biggest sticking points was over teacher pay; the compromise offers public school teachers an average seven percent raise.

Leaders in the state Senate have offered an eight percent pay raise for teachers as they inch closer to putting together a budget.

Faced with a $ 4 million budget deficit, school officials got a reminder of their financial troubles on Tuesday when a couple hundred teachers rallied outside the district offices before a board meeting demanding more than the 1 percent pay raise the district is offering.

The big ticket items, however, are the $ 273 million for the 9 percent pay raise being offered to teachers this coming school year and $ 100 million to start restoring money the state took in prior years in aid to schools for things like computers, books and minor repairs.

Video: N.C. Gov. Roy Cooper offered a proposal to raise teacher pay during a visit to Lynn Road Elementary School in Raleigh Tuesday.