It marks the biggest raises the teachers have received in a decade, and makes them among the highest
paid teachers in the region.
Not exact matches
The UFT will present the fact - finding panel with evidence that New York City public school
teachers,
in addition to having the largest class sizes and the neediest students, are on average the lowest
paid in the
region.
A state arbitration panel
in Connecticut recently ruled that
Region 13, covering the towns of Durham and Middlefield, would have to
pay teachers more under a proposed block schedule plan because
teachers would be required to teach six different courses a year instead of five courses.
That's comparable to the
pay offered by Boston, Austin and Cleveland, but more than the salaries of
teachers in other big systems
in the
region.
As board members pointed out Wednesday, even if all other states
in the southeast remained static on
teacher pay, the governor's
pay proposal would fall short of leading the
region.
The
region a
teacher works
in can be just as important as the field a
teacher works
in,
in terms of
pay scale.
«We're creating a high school
region, getting additional supports to support our principals, our
teachers and our students
in those schools,
paying very close attention to programing, to course offerings and to electives and making sure that our young people have met all the requirements necessary to get into top institutions and also to prepare for the world of work,» Driver says.