Sentences with phrase «pay for the teacher»

The tax could also pay for a teacher salary supplement, Burke said, such as offering a $ 5,000 bonus to teachers who stay in the district five years and $ 10,000 at 10 years, Burke said.

In another high - profile ballot initiative, residents in Mt. Prospect - based River Trails Elementary District 26 must decide whether to raise their tax rate 13 percent to pay for teachers» salaries and to stave off program cuts.

Harry Nespoli, chairman of the city's labor coalition, suggested letting New York apply some of the $ 400 million of unused cash from the union health - insurance fund to pay for teachers who would be fired under the mayor's $ 65.7 billion spending plan.

Key reforms include fostering more effective charter schools, merit pay for teachers, more aid to parochial schools and the elimination of stultifying laws such as «Last in first out» for teacher layoffs.

The plan would boost pay for teachers who improve student results and impose higher disciplinary standards.

Michael Rebell, an attorney who won a landmark case requiring the state to fund school districts more equitably, and Randi Weingarten, president of a national teachers» union, wrote in appendices to the report that they agree with much of the group's findings, including recommendations for increased access to pre-kindergarten, technology and learning models that connect high school and college, and merit pay for teachers.

That commission largely shaped Cuomo's first - term education agenda, including a push for full - day pre-kindergarten, merit pay for teachers and a $ 2 billion bond act to boost technology in schools.

(One school still pays for that teacher's salary but the AP for All program provides other support, DOE officials explained.)

The Massey plan would also expand the number of competitive, specialized high schools from nine to 13, increase the number of vocational / trade schools, and implement merit pay for teachers, which the Bloomberg administration tried on a limited basis.

• Unions representing headteachers have warned the government it could face major difficulties introducing performance - related pay for all teachers, noting, for example, that pay rises for some would lead to pay cuts or redundancy for others.

They decided to go on strike after state lawmakers passed a bill to raise pay for teachers and other public employees by 4 percent over three years while imposing higher health care premiums.

Mayor Bloomberg in his State of the City address on Jan. 12 proposed merit pay for teachers, vowed to step up efforts to remove ineffective teachers, blamed the union for the breakdown of negotiations over a teacher evaluation system in 33 restart and transformation schools and announced that he would open 50 new charter schools in the next two years.

Rich donors tend to be more supportive of market - oriented reforms, such as charter schools and merit pay for teachers, but are less supportive of paying more taxes for early childhood education and federal spending to improve schools.

But really better training of science teachers, better pay for teachers, more investment in school infrastructure, building, science equipment — that's a huge challenge for the nation, in which we are clearly losing internationally just by every ranking; we do much less well than we should.

It has also reviewed hundreds of thousands of reports to aid in distinguishing the best - quality research from weaker work, including studies on such subjects as the effectiveness of charter schools and merit pay for teachers, which have informed the ongoing debate about these issues.

They give a higher evaluation to private schools than to public ones in their local community, but opposition to market - oriented school - reform proposals such as performance pay for teachers and school vouchers seems to be on the rise.

Voters understood that passage of this proposition would mean more money in their classrooms, better pay for the teachers in their schools, more control at the local level, and more information for parents.

These averages are based on regular pay for teachers without advanced degrees and exclude extra pay for coaching or other activities.

Director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute John Hattie has warned that some of the UK government's key education policies, such as performance related pay for teachers and increased academy conversion, are a «distraction» that will only have a «minimal» impact on student's learning.

Dismissing Colorado's assessment and teacher evaluation framework as insufficient, her team created their own assessments and a «Continuous Improvement of Teacher Effectiveness» evaluation system, which would be the basis for merit pay for teachers.

Does evidence that the New York City bonus program did not lead to marked gains in student achievement, at least in the program's first two years, mean that merit pay for teachers in general does not work?

So do differences over merit pay for teachers.

We conducted these experiments on four topics: Common Core, charter schools, tax credits, and merit pay for teachers.

The New York City bonus - pay program provides us with a valuable opportunity to study the effect of merit pay for teachers in an experimental setting.

But since its inception in 2005, Democrats for Education Reform, a political action committee based in New York City, has sought to use campaign donations to smooth the way for policies such as expanding charter schools and differential pay for teachers that are sometimes opposed by traditional Democratic constituencies.

On four issues — Common Core, charter schools, tax credits, and merit pay for teachers — the poll examines whether President Trump's endorsement of a policy has a polarizing effect on public opinion by telling half of the sample the president's position while not supplying this information to the other.

The state requires and finances a one - year mentoring program for all beginning teachers and pays for teacher professional development for each district.

One of the most straightforward ways school districts can obtain cost savings without harming students is to eliminate extra pay for teachers who earn a master's degree.

Ludger Woessman (see «Merit Pay International,» research) looked at 27 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries and found that students in countries with some form of performance pay for teachers score about 25 percent of a standard deviation higher on the international math test than do their peers in countries without teacher performance pay.

The Forum enables scholars and commentators to express differing views on major education issues and reform proposals — beginning, in this issue, with the pros and cons of for - profit schooling and merit pay for teachers in «Defining Merit.»

This pattern strongly suggests that any efforts by Florida districts to provide better pay for teachers in the high - demand subjects of math and science are insufficient to offset the differences in outside earnings opportunities across subject areas.

ED in ’08 may also have contributed to Obama's decision to press forward with national standards and performance pay for teachers once he was in office... Teacher effectiveness and national standards [would] come to dominate the Obama education agenda and the education debate for the next four years.

«We need to investigate every aspect of differentiated pay for teachers.»

Perhaps the best example of the waste of public money is the scheme to introduce a system of performance pay for teachers.

However, there is little evidence that across - the - board increases in relative pay for all teachers are necessary to staff public schools with qualified teachers.

We see only slight changes in people's views on the quality of the nation's schools, for instance, or on federally mandated testing, charter schools, tax credits to support private school choice, merit pay for teachers, or the effects of teachers unions.

Public support remains as high as ever for federally mandated testing, charter schools, tax credits to support private school choice, merit pay for teachers, and teacher tenure reform.

Despite persuasive evidence suggesting that a high - quality curriculum is a more cost - effective means of improving student outcomes than many more - popular ed - reform measures, such as merit pay for teachers or reducing class size, states have largely ignored curriculum reform.

Effectively, pay for teachers who remain in the classroom is severely limited in comparison to those who chose to come out of the classroom into positions of senior leadership.

And of course, the pay for teachers is inadequate.

But test - based outcomes, merit pay for teachers, rewards and sanctions, and voucher and charter alternatives have been part of the reform agenda of most states for years.

Meanwhile, the Denver Public Schools and the Denver Teachers Association have captured attention for agreeing to a two - year pilot of a program that ties pay for all teachers in participating schools to student performance and to further teacher education.

In the world of K - 12 education, incentive pay for teachers — programs that reward good teaching and encourage the most effective educators to share their talents with the highest - need students — have become the reform du jour.

Crist certainly did not veto the legislation because of public anger at the possibility of merit pay for teachers.

At the time, Paul Peterson noted «One of the most straightforward ways school districts can obtain cost savings without harming students is to eliminate extra pay for teachers who earn a master's degree.»

Martin West and Ludger Woessmann's analysis of data from 18 nations even suggests that higher pay for teachers might be more effective than reducing class size.

Nearly three - fourths favored merit pay for teachers, and almost the same fraction favored the withdrawal of tenure from teachers found to be consistently ineffective.

It's become a familiar sight for education policy mavens this election season: panel discussions, in Washington and elsewhere, hashing out the presumptive presidential nominees» differences on performance pay for teachers, private school vouchers, and other reliable topics of debate.

Nationwide, weekly pay for teachers exceeds that of computer programmers, registered nurses, social workers, and lab technicians.

From time to time, the state has been able to appropriate funds to increase pay for teachers, according to Charles Pyle, the public information manager for the Virginia Department of Education.