Just as lively (and divisive) as the controversy over school choice and home schooling has been the
debate over teacher pay and licensure.
In the next few minutes, we're going to take a bird's eye view of this national
fight over teacher pay and ask, how did we get here?
on Budget negotiations update: Teacher assistants find themselves at the center of the battle over teacher pay
Limiting benefit rises to 1 %, scrapping the planned fuel duty increase, devolving
power over teacher pay to schools and cutting corporation tax are steps in the right direction.
We decided to take a look at student debt among teachers specifically, because we see it as a crossroads of several big trends: chronic
concerns over teacher pay amid calls to improve teacher quality; the rising cost of higher ed; the increasing reliance on loans to pay for it; and changing policies from the Trump administration.
For starters, restoring a national pay system would be a no - brainer: «They say that autonomy helps, and we think there is evidence that autonomy for teachers in the classroom, or on curriculum and assessment, helps — but there's absolutely no evidence at all that giving heads
autonomy over teacher pay helps.»
* UPDATED A second round of protests is scheduled at LA Unified schools today as the district and its teachers union, UTLA, continue to lock
horns over teacher pay raises, among other issues.
The signing comes five weeks after the beginning of the fiscal year on July 1st, a deadline lawmakers did not meet because of stalled negotiations and debate
largely over teacher pay and Medicaid funding.
The authors looked to national surveys of charter and private schools and interviews with leading charter and private school networks for their answers to major questions that animate the current debates
over teacher pay in public schools.
Budget negotiations update: Teacher assistants find themselves at the center of the battle over teacher pay
One of the biggest sticking points was
over teacher pay; the compromise offers public school teachers an average seven percent raise.
Perhaps the biggest sticking point is
over teacher pay.