Sentences with phrase «on hiring more teachers»

State Sen. Jim Tedisco lauded the district and its administrators for spending the funding on hiring more teachers and expanding programs aimed at needy children and proposing a budget that cuts school taxes.

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Senate Republicans not only stuck it to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio on mayoral control of the public schools, but also handed a victory to his nemesis, Success Academy charter school network founder Eva Moskowitz by allowing charters to hire more uncertified teachers.

Education Week is reporting on an Empire Center's report that says over the past decade «public schools hired nearly 15,000 teachers and almost 9,000 administrators, guidance counselors and other support workers over the last 10 years as enrollment dropped by more than 121,000 students.

(CNN)- A surrogate for Mitt Romney's campaign said Monday the presumptive GOP nominee was taken out of context when he argued against the idea of hiring more fire fighters, police and teachers on the taxpayer dime.

Schools Superintendent Pamela Brown says raising attendance is a priority, but doesn't know if the district can hire more attendance teachers on its budget.

Districts would have no option if they wanted to provide their staff a different mix of compensation, even if they'd prefer to spend more resources on higher teacher salaries, hiring more teachers or making other investments.

Although the demand for teachers also depends on policies such as class size and the use of technology, this increase in retirement - eligible teachers may well portend the need to hire more teachers in upcoming years.

The teachers then walked out anyway, on behalf of an agenda that included, depending on who was talking, more funds for textbooks, non-teaching staff, and salaries; changes in Oklahoma's capital gains tax rate; other changes in the tax code; new hires at the State Department of Education, and more.

They will be able to hire and maintain a teaching force with the goal of higher test scores in mind, and they will have more flexibility than public schools do to reward or punish their teachers on the basis of test results.

My analytical strategy relied on a simple economic argument: If schools that face stronger competition prefer certain characteristics in their teachers, then they should hire more teachers who possess those characteristics and pay them a higher wage.

Although better principals may also attract and hire more - effective teachers, the absence of reliable quality measures for new teachers and the fact that many principals have little control over new hires lead us to focus specifically on turnover.

Instead, they walked out anyway, demanding that the state dramatically boost taxes on income and / or services, raise pay for non-teaching staff, hire more teachers, spend more on school maintenance, and so forth.

School districts, including most charter schools, have no choice but to pay the rates set by the state legislature, even if they'd prefer to spend precious resources on higher teacher salaries, hiring more teachers, or making other critical investments in school services.

Districts and schools wishing to hire more - effective teachers could benefit from collecting a broader set of information on their candidates, concludes a new working paper by several well - known teacher - quality researchers.

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.

For example, the IDOE provides a web - based recruitment portal to provide streamlined sharing of teacher candidate information for more thoughtful hiring practices, as well as encourages high standards for preparation and licensure in addition to «transition to teaching» programs such as the Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowships, Teach For America, and TNTP's Indianapolis Teaching Fellows.51 Notably, teacher candidates must pass three subject - specific assessments before entering an educator preparation program (EPP), and EPPs must report extensive data collected on teachers using data matrix reporting.

If so many people are on the same page, why haven't public schools hired more teachers and perhaps fewer non-teachers?

If the average - sized charter school serves 250 students, then its spending on facilities will exceed more than $ 500,000 — enough to hire six new teachers or provide 350 days of professional development.

The divide on how to educate fidgety boys: challenge them, let them run around or hire more male teachers?

QEIA funding is contingent on enrolled schools meeting six performance benchmarks - including commitments to maintaining smaller class sizes, hiring experienced teachers and providing more school counselors.

By rewarding individuals who step up on their own and take the training by hiring them first or giving them preferred placement on jobs, substitute teachers will be more than willing to invest in training.

The prospective teachers get the chance to try out the profession and make a few mistakes under a watchful eye before taking on the full responsibility of a classroom, and Ruby gets a pipeline of potential hires in which he has more confidence.

The cuts fall hardest on new and future teachers, particularly for teachers hired after the recession who do not plan to teach in the same state for 30 or more years.

With the help of the NGA, they are focusing much more deliberately on math and science, teacher training in math and science, expanding AP, and easing the requirements for master's degrees by allowing districts to hire math and science teachers with a bachelor's degree for non-tenure track jobs.

North Carolina public school leaders say a legislative mandate to decrease class sizes in the early grades may have a devastating impact on school systems across the state, forcing districts to spend millions more hiring teachers or cut scores of positions for those teaching «specialty» subjects such as arts, music and physical education.

In the districts that hired more underprepared teachers, the share of new hires who held less than a full teaching credential increased by about 30 %, on average, compared to the previous year.

The estimated costs to replace a teacher range from about $ 9,000 on average in a rural district to, on average, more than $ 20,000 in an urban district, drawing on the results of multiple studies that have evaluated what it costs to process a teacher's exit, as well as costs to recruit, hire, and train new teachers.

She says the mechanics for establishing a positive teaching culture are relatively simple: With a particular focus on new teachers, Betsy Layne regularly hires substitutes so teachers can be released to observe more experienced colleagues in the classroom.

When the LA Unified Board of Education meets on Tuesday, the first gathering time since the summer break, Superintendent John Deasy and his staff will present options for hiring more teachers, counselors and other employees — complete with price tags.

By contrast, the U.S. system spends a lot of resources on keeping class sizes relatively small, and hiring more teachers for them.

The achievement gap between students of different races has been well - documented, and the San Francisco Unified School District is trying something it hopes will address the disparities early on: Hiring more black teachers.

However, their time to work directly with teachers on issues of instruction was more limited than district - hired coaches» time because they had too many disparate jobs.

One reason that district - hired coaches spent more time working directly with teachers on issues of instruction was that district leaders emphasized these activities as defining features of their work.

In 1996 - 97, when the NCTAF report was released, California embarked on an ambitious effort to reduce class sizes, and, since smaller class sizes translate to more classes overall, this meant the state had to hire tens of thousands of additional teachers.

on The divide on how to educate fidgety boys: challenge them, let them run around or hire more male teachers?

The inspector general noted that the district and charter sector did not have an efficient way to exchange information about teachers on a «Do Not Hire» list, but also that charter schools have much more latitude when it comes to hiring decisions.

Dawn: Do you truly believe that you can build a professional teacher corps based on the principle that once you get a few years under your belt and start earning a middle - class salary that you will be in immediate danger of being laid off because that will allow the hiring of more new and inexperienced teachers to lower class size?

Do you truly believe that you can build a professional teacher corps based on the principle that once you get a few years under your belt and start earning a middle - class salary that you will be in immediate danger of being laid off because that will allow the hiring of more new and inexperienced teachers to lower class size?

According to NCTR, first - year teachers in NCTR programs are more effective — based on student learning gains — than their novice teacher peers and an overwhelming majority of principals would recommend hiring a teacher who has experienced a clinical residency to a colleague.80

In fact, the comparisons across programs revealed far more similarities than differences, which very likely is reassuring to the Education Department, which inevitably must rely on diverse providers to supply the teachers it hires each year.

Some schools also hire substitute teachers on a permanent basis so that if at any time a lead teacher is... Read More»