Sentences with phrase «pay raise for teachers»

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

Granite School Board approves pay raise for teachers.

It's unclear how the lieutenant governor arrived at an average 11 percent pay raise for teachers — he could be adding numbers together, like adding the recent 7 percent raise with an expected 4 percent average raise that could come when lawmakers pass a budget, said DPI's Price.

The legislature has already cleared an 8 percent pay raise for teachers.

The state's teachers returned to work late last month after the Mississippi legislature overrode a gubernatorial veto and approved a $ 4,400 pay raise for teachers over the next three years.

The bitter tug - of - war over Denver's performance - pay plan has ended with the teachers» union and the school district reaching a compromise agreement that includes a 3 percent pay raise for all teachers and higher starting salaries.

Major issues during the 2014 legislative session included creating a new budget, a pay raise for teachers, Common Core and banning legislators from serving as lobbyists immediately following their departure.

The tax increases will underwrite $ 187 million in capital improvements to schools, $ 35.7 million in pay raises for teachers, and other elements of the desegregation effort.

North Carolina lawmakers last week eliminated automatic pay raises for teachers who complete master's degrees.

Kentucky Gov. Paul E. Patton's call for mandated pay raises for teachers threatens to do what months of scheming by opponents of the Kentucky education - reform law has not managed — hobble the state's open - ended testing and performance bonus programs.

«That's money that could go to pay raises for teachers.»

Although a few members have been prominent supporters of charter school expansion, the group has tended to support traditional public - school interests like greater funding for struggling schools and pay raises for teachers rather than choice proposals.

Even if they succeed in getting more funding for public education, there is a good chance that it will not result in substantial pay raises for teachers.

House lawmakers released a draft 2015 - 17 budget last month that includes modest pay raises for all teachers and a patchwork of funding initiatives aimed at improving leadership and instruction.

House lawmakers unveiled a draft biennial budget Monday that includes pay raises for all teachers and a patchwork of funding initiatives aimed at improving leadership and instruction — but what's not in the budget is what some say...

Many education stakeholders have been lobbying for across - the - board pay raises for all teachers at a time when more and more teachers are leaving North Carolina for significant pay raises in places like Virginia, South Carolina or Tennessee.

He has agreed to high stakes - test based teacher evaluations and a contract that delayed earned pay raises for teachers.

It's a leap of logic, not a hard truth, to claim that a multi-dimensional and more complex accountability system is a deliberate effort to obfuscate efforts to shift money intended for low - income students and English learners to general pay raises for teachers, as you imply.

Yes, we've gone 14 years without the voter - approved pay raises for teachers.

House lawmakers unveiled a draft biennial budget Monday that includes pay raises for all teachers and a patchwork of funding initiatives aimed at improving leadership and instruction — but what's not in the budget is what some say will prove to be the biggest challenge ahead for North Carolina's classrooms.

In addition to praising students for «rising to the challenge» and producing impressive results, Bentley pledged pay raises for teachers and school support personnel.

The nominal budget figure has increased due to growing student headcount, moderate pay raises for teachers, and the rising costs of the state's health and retirement programs.

Not exact matches

Arizona's largest school district and some others will resume classes after lawmakers approved money for teacher pay raises and additional education funding.

The parent - teacher organization at the school has been raising money to pay for a new wooden floor in the gym and has already raised $ 100,000, said Kim Anderson, co-president of the PTO.

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.

In 2011, Carvalho helped implement a merit pay system — considered anathema to most teachers union officials, including Weingarten — that tied raises to teachers» evaluation scores and provided bonuses for highly effective teachers.

What are we doing about failing schools, how do we pay teachers and what we are paying for are questions that are implicitly raised in every budget.

The United Federation of Teachers, for example, was granted back pay in the form of 8 - percent wage increases because Bloomberg gave similar raises to other unions but not the teachers when he was inTeachers, for example, was granted back pay in the form of 8 - percent wage increases because Bloomberg gave similar raises to other unions but not the teachers when he was inteachers when he was in office.

Teachers are already paying more, the normal pension age has been raised to 65 for new entrants and employer contributions have been capped.

Members of the Transport Workers Union got a total of 19 percent in pay raises between 2009 and 2016, compared with 12 percent for the city's teachers union over the same period.

Mr. Anyidoho, wondered why government has failed to pay Cuban doctors, pay allowances for nurses and teachers, embark on developmental projects and yet, the party's Acting Chairman will be able to raise money to front for the purchase of buses.

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.

State aid was raised during teacher contract negotiations, and at that time, delegates seemed optimistic they would be able to secure extra funding to help pay for it.

Or rebuild the crumbling school infrastructure, create scholarships for the next generation of scientists and engineers, and finally give good teachers the pay raise they deserve.

But if your parents need to raise money to pay for your physical education teacher or librarian, then you will have to raise significant amounts of money, and that will mean bigger and more frequent events.

For many organisations, particularly schools, the second requirement raised doubts as to whether or not a paid teacher, with only a category B entitlement gained from January 1st 1997, could meet this criterion when driving a minibus.

Signaling that schools will be a top priority during the upcoming legislative session, Ducey outlined plans for an education - heavy agenda, including statewide teacher pay raises, increased spending on all - day kindergarten, and a $ 1,000 signing bonus for new teachers who take jobs in low - income districts.

While the teachers unions could seek higher compensation at the negotiating table, they quickly discovered that they would lose public support if the school board sought the authority to pay for raises by floating new bonds, for example.

Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle has released state funds for the last round of public school teacher pay raises, even though random drug testing for instructors has not been implemented.

Good teachers not only get their job back, but they also get an extremely generous pay raise over the next four years for staying and being good.

Some locales have diluted the merit pay concept by making the bonuses to teachers small and setting the bar for receiving the bonuses low, thereby converting merit pay into something approximating an across - the board pay raise.

If teachers are not paid fairly for their noncognitive skills, we would expect teachers who shift to private - sector jobs to receive significant raises.

Such pay innovations should also boost student achievement and, because they are based on performance, strengthen the argument for dramatically raising teacher salaries — at least for those with the highest levels of professional expertise.

In short, there may be a good case for raising the pay of some teachers — such as those in fields or schools that are difficult to staff or who are exceptionally effective in the classroom.

Concerned that this system makes it difficult to retain talented teachers and provides few incentives for them to work to raise student achievement while in the classroom, many policymakers have proposed merit - pay programs that link teachers» salaries directly to their apparent impact on student achievement.

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.

Morgan has written a letter to members of the Teacher and Head teacher Union Rountable saying that the Department for Education (DfE) wants to: continue to listen carefully to the arguments that unions are making; move forward in a constructive way and continue discussions on the issues the unions have raised with her; and have a conversation about a new series of talks to allow greater depth on certain topics (i.e. pay, conditions, workload and qualificaTeacher and Head teacher Union Rountable saying that the Department for Education (DfE) wants to: continue to listen carefully to the arguments that unions are making; move forward in a constructive way and continue discussions on the issues the unions have raised with her; and have a conversation about a new series of talks to allow greater depth on certain topics (i.e. pay, conditions, workload and qualificateacher Union Rountable saying that the Department for Education (DfE) wants to: continue to listen carefully to the arguments that unions are making; move forward in a constructive way and continue discussions on the issues the unions have raised with her; and have a conversation about a new series of talks to allow greater depth on certain topics (i.e. pay, conditions, workload and qualifications).

The proposal would provide initial pay raises of between 5 percent and 15 percent for all teachers.

A new NPR / Ipsos poll finds that just 1 in 4 Americans believe teachers in this country are paid fairly, but other surveys have found that when respondents are told what teachers currently earn, support for raising salaries drops.

The Democratic governor also said that he and legislators «have worked to provide every child with a world - class education» in the Sooner State by raising teacher pay, setting up a state lottery to pay for education, and providing full - day kindergarten for all youngsters.