Sentences with phrase «percent raise for teachers»

In the latest budget adjustments, state lawmakers approved an average 4.7 percent raise for teachers.

The state Senate has proposed an average 3.7 percent raise for teachers in its budget.

It's a long, long way from action on the N.C. General Assembly floor, but N.C. Superintendent of Public Instruction June Atkinson today called for a 10 percent raise for all teachers in North Carolina.

House Speaker Thom Tillis (R - Mecklenberg) unveiled his party's revised budget proposal for 2014, which includes an average five percent raise for teachers without forcing them to give up their career status — but he plans to pay for the teachers» raises with revenues from the state's lottery.

The House budget proposal relies on around $ 150 million in increased revenues from North Carolina's lottery to fund the proposed five percent raise for teachers and more slots for pre-kindergarten.

Gov. Pat McCrory's budget proposal includes an average two percent raise for teachers and boosts pay for beginning teachers.

House Speaker Thom Tillis (R - Mecklenberg) unveiled his party's revised budget proposal for 2014, which includes an average five percent raise for teachers without forcing them to give up their career status — but he plans to pay for...

LA Unified has opened contract negotiations with the teachers union, UTLA, offering a 2 percent raise for all teachers for the current school year, and another 2 percent increase next year.

Last time around, the school board — with the same 5 - 2 pro-union majority it has now — approved a 10 percent raise for teachers, which was more than the union was asking for and in spite of the district's projected deficits.

Not exact matches

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.

The Chicago Teachers Union has rejected Chicago Public Schools officials» offer of a 2 percent raise for elementary school teachers in exchange for a longer school day starting in Teachers Union has rejected Chicago Public Schools officials» offer of a 2 percent raise for elementary school teachers in exchange for a longer school day starting in teachers in exchange for a longer school day starting in January.

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.

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.

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.

In the city budget, savings came from removing more than $ 900 million reserved from Mayor Michael Bloomberg's original spending plan for teacher salary raises of 4 percent.

Over the course of negotiations, the district has proposed giving teachers a 10 percent raise and a bonus to make up for the time working under an expired agreement.

As discussed above, Act 10 did not directly raise teacher contributions, but the 12 percent minimum it established for the state plan set a standard that districts were now free to follow.

When asked how they «reduced their budget gaps» over the past two years, fewer than half had eliminated or limited cost of living raises for teachers, only 30 percent cut automatic step increases, and just 13 percent trimmed benefits.

The Chetty, Friedman, and Rockoff study finds that, on average, a 1 standard deviation improvement in teacher value added (equivalent to having a teacher in the 84th percentile rather than one at the median) for one year raises a student's earnings at age 28 by about 1 percent.

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.

Saying he wants to thank Georgia's teachers for their hard work, Gov. Sonny Perdue has proposed giving them a 2 percent raise as part of his fiscal 2006 budget.

It didn't help Emanuel's relationship with CTU that nearly the first thing he did was to declare that the district was in a «fiscal emergency» and to rescind the teachers» 4 percent raise for 2011 — 12, the last year of the final Daley contract.

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

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

Georgia teachers will receive a 3 percent pay raise and funding for the state's Quality Basic Education Act will be increased as a result of the legislature's adoption of the first major tax increase in 18 years.

Two decades of surveys by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) suggest that the typical teacher spends only about 68 percent of classroom time on instruction related to core academic subjects, with the remainder consumed by administrative tasks, fund - raising, assemblies, socialization, and so forth.

[x] In the 2016 Education Next poll there was also strong support for teacher pay increases — regardless of how the question was asked, 42 percent to 65 percent of Americans favored pay raises and virtually no one thought pay was too high.

If not told what the salaries were, 65 percent favored higher salaries, but if told the real numbers, only 41 percent wanted raises for teachers.

Governor has proposed phasing in prekindergarten and dropout - prevention programs; also has called for giving 2 percent, or an average of $ 600, raises to teachers.

Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley suggests a year - round schedule, automatically raising teachers» pay 20 percent for the added work time.

LA Unified said today it has altered its salary offer to teachers by eliminating any contingency on a package that includes raises of 2 percent for this year, 2 percent for next year and 2.5 percent for the year after that.

The offer included restoring a 5 percent reduction in teacher pay that was instituted in 2011, 2 percent raises each of the next two years and $ 2,500 bonuses for new teachers who successfully complete three years of probation.

«Our per - pupil spending is up 10 percent in the state of Arizona, and the amount of dollars available for teacher pay — that's both raises and new teachers — is plus - 9 percent since 2015.»

«Gov. Cooper's hypocrisy knows no bounds — he vetoed an average 9.6 percent pay increase for teachers just last year and now claims he supports teacher pay raises,» Carver said.

In 2014, parents of students at Horace Mann Elementary School in Northwest Washington, D.C., spent over $ 470,000 of their own money to support the school's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income families.6

For teachers who are at the bottom and currently making $ 30,800, McCrory's plan would be close to a 14 percent pay raise for beginning teachers over two yeaFor teachers who are at the bottom and currently making $ 30,800, McCrory's plan would be close to a 14 percent pay raise for beginning teachers over two yeafor beginning teachers over two years.

The three - year contract, which has an option for a fourth year and which awaits a ratification vote by the 29,000 - member Chicago Teachers Union, calls for an average 17.6 percent pay raise over four years and some benefit improvements.

In parsing out that scale, the largest percentage increase would come for a teacher moving to the fourth year of experience to the fifth — a 16 percent raise.

For example, after receiving no raise in year 21, a New York City teacher earns a $ 5,511 raise in year 22, a bump of 5.8 percent.

House lawmakers came back to the Senate proposal by asking for more flexibility for school districts, allowing them to choose between giving teachers a full 8 percent raise or using some of that money to preserve teacher assistant positions.

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.

Earlier this summer, the Senate's budget proposal opted to pay for hefty 11 percent teacher raises by stripping $ 233 million away from teacher assistants, which would have wiped out all TAs in the second and third grades.

Those numbers mean it's nearly impossible for school districts to raise their minority teacher ranks to a level comparable to their students of color, who account for 52 percent of students nationwide — and 80 percent or more of students in the nation's largest districts.

North Carolina's teachers have received just one small raise of 1.2 percent during the past five years, which was offset for many by rises in health insurance premiums.

In addition to a 20 percent pay hike for teachers, they're seeking increased pay for support professionals, a permanent raise structure, and a freeze on corporate tax cuts until per - pupil spending reaches the national average.

The Senate budget also slashes other areas of education to pay for the steep raise, notably cutting the jobs of more than 7,000 teacher assistants and crippling the Department of Public Instruction with a 30 percent reduction.

With an average salary of $ 76,000 (not including employee benefits or pensions), Chicago teachers were already among the highest paid in the nation and the new deal included a 7 percent raise over three years, with additional raises for experience and education.

In January, N.C. Superintendent of Public Instruction June Atkinson called for a 10 percent, across - the - board raise for the state's teachers.

In a Pre / K Question and Answer session at a professional development session last month, 70 percent of the Pre / K teachers raised their hands when asked if they had students whose parents were in prison for part of the 2015 - 2016 academic year.

In Tennessee, where student test scores count for 35 percent of a teacher's evaluation, questions have been raised about the system's accuracy and reliability, with someteachers seeing inconsistencies between the scores they receive on observations and their value - added ratings.