If Gov. Roy Cooper has his way, the average teacher will get an 8
percent raise next year, other state employees will get their biggest raise in a decade, and schools will get millions of dollars to upgrade security, buy supplies and hire new resource officers, nurses, counselors, social workers and psychologists.
Spar said the union stood firm in its request for a 2.5
percent raise next school year, with additional 4 percent increases in each of the next two years contingent on state funding.
Unsatisfied with proposed 23 percent pay hike, City Council members are planning to overrule a mayor - appointed panel and vote themselves a whopping 32
percent raise next week, officials said late Thursday.
Unsatisfied with proposed 23 percent pay hike, City Council members are planning to overrule a mayor - appointed panel and vote themselves a whopping 32
percent raise next week, officials said late...
Unsatisfied with proposed 23 percent pay hike, NYC Council members are planning to overrule a mayor - appointed panel and vote themselves a whopping 32
percent raise next week.
Not exact matches
Judged by monetary growth, they were too little too late,
raising monetary growth from 1.5
percent a year in the prior three and a half years to only 3.25
percent in the
next two and a half.
Reiterating mid-term goals that include a 6
percent margin excluding Opel for 2021 - compared with 7.3
percent last year - Chief Financial Officer Jean - Baptiste de Chatillon said the targets will be reviewed early
next year and could be
raised.
Hence the question: Is it reasonable to expect that marginally looser policies would now lead to more than tripling of the growth rate (to 1.5 - 2
percent) over the
next two years, while
raising the inflation rate from -0.3
percent to 2
percent — as the Bank of Japan is promising?
The 2
percent increase for
next year marks a significant jump over last year, which was just 0.3
percent, and the biggest change since 2012, when older Americans saw a 3.6
percent raise.
On Monday, in a trade that
raised a few eyebrows in the options market, one trader spent more than $ 5 million on a bullish bet that Twitter shares will rise 25
percent in the
next 16 months.
China will
raise foreign ownership limits to 51
percent in securities, fund management, futures and life insurance companies «over the
next few months», the PBOC said in a statement on its website.
The CBO concurred, predicting that skinny repeal would boost the number of uninsured Americans by 16 million and
raise premiums by 20
percent as soon as
next year and then 10
percent by 2019.
They may be thought of as the job - hopping generation, but almost 90
percent of millennials surveyed by software firm Qualtrics would actually choose to stay in a job for the
next 10 years — if they knew there was room for an annual pay
raise and career mobility.
Employees expecting
raises have also made it clear when it comes to how much more they expect to get paid in 2015, as half (49
percent) of those who expect to get a
raise in the
next 12 months say they expect it to be between 3 and 5
percent.
That is, would expectations of outsized demand growth — of, say, 4
percent per year over the
next four years in inflation - adjusted terms — generate undue inflationary pressures that would require the Federal Reserve to respond by
raising interest rates, essentially killing off any actual growth that those expectations could generate?
In the
next five years, All
Raise would like to see venture investments in female - founded companies move up from 15
percent to 25
percent.
Economists surveyed by MarketWatch are forecasting a strong nonfarm payrolls number on Friday, and most investors expect the Fed will
raise rates by another quarter -
percent next week.
Accordingly, policy should be set with a view to modestly
raise target inflation, perhaps to 2.3 or even 2.5
percent inflation, during a boom with the expectation that inflation will decline during the
next recession.
«In determining whether it will be appropriate to
raise the target range at its
next meeting, the committee will assess progress - both realized and expected - toward its objectives of maximum employment and 2
percent inflation,» the Fed said in a statement after its latest two - day policy meeting.
The FOMC
next meets in June, when it is widely expected to
raise the key rate by 25 basis points to two
percent.
Schools chief Jean - Claude Brizard upped the ante later in the evening on WTTW's «Chicago Tonight,» saying he would be willing to give elementary school teachers a 2
percent raise this year if it means the district could implement a longer school day this year rather than waiting until
next year.
The bonds, obtained at a 6.69
percent interest rate, will likely
raise the park district «s tax rate to 44 cents per $ 100 of assessed valuation from 42 cents over the
next 13 years, according to park district superintendent of finance Richard Gravesmill.
It
raises your income tax
next year 30
percent.
These schools would be able to unilaterally
raise tuition up to 7
percent a year for the
next five years through 2014 - 2015.
The city of Schenectady's roughly 146 blue collar workers would receive 2
percent raises for the
next three years under a proposed contract that was voted out of the City Council Finance Committee.
Villages and library districts
next year will be limited to
raising tax levies by a mere 0.12
percent while counties and towns will be limited to 0.73
percent, according to Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office.
But school districts have in recent weeks
raised concerns about a tax cap that will allow for increases of less than 1
percent heading into the
next budget season.
After several years of contentious bargaining, Erie County has settled a contract with the its blue - collar union, offering 2
percent raises each year for the
next four years to the 1,500 members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 1095.
Flow control
raised the cost of collecting garbage by private haulers, which usually results in passing it along to their customers, from this year's $ 93 a ton to $ 103
next year, an increase of almost 14
percent.
In the preliminary budget, de Blasio proposed 2
percent annual wage
raises for the
next three years for 90,000 nonprofit employees.
The operating budget, which will be vetted in tandem with the recently released capital budget over the
next month, will cost Westchester taxpayers $ 1.8 billion — a 0.4
percent spending increase over 2016 — and will not
raise the county's tax levy for the seventh consecutive year.
ALBANY — State Budget Director Robert Megna confirmed Friday that the
next one - week budget extender will include the 4
percent raises to unionized state workers, as demanded by a temporary restraining order issued by a federal judge.
The Southold Town Board unanimously passed a $ 44 million preliminary budget at its meeting Tuesday night, setting up the proposal — which pierces the tax cap and
raises the tax rate by 7.57
percent — for public hearings
next month.
One compensation is that districts
next year will be allowed to
raise more money through local property taxes, because the state's baseline cap restriction on taxation will go up to 2
percent — the highest limit since 2013 - 14.
School tax levies — that is, revenue
raised through local property taxation — will rise
next year by an average 2.78
percent in Suffolk County and an average 2.42
percent both in Nassau County and statewide, according to figures from public school districts released last week by the state comptroller's office.
Mr. Lindsay, along with fellow Democrats Vivian Viloria - Fisher, Ricardo Montano, Wayne Horsley, DuWayne Gregory and Independent Jay Schneiderman, said while «everything is on the table» as they proceed with finding a solution to balance
next year's spending plan,
raising property taxes won't be a realistic move because the new mandated 2
percent tax cap would only generate about $ 1 million.
A third - party fact finder's report endorsed the county's health insurance proposal but recommended that union employees be given bigger
raises of 2.5
percent a year for the
next three years.
Any reforms to come from the process, starting
next week, would affect about 62
percent of New York state's population, the proportion estimated to reside now in areas that could be hard hit as rising land and ocean temperatures
raise average sea levels around the globe.
The agreement guarantees teachers and most support workers 3
percent raises the first year and 2
percent raises in each of the
next three years.
A monthlong teacher strike in Michigan City, Ind., ended late last month after union leaders and administrators reached an agreement on a three - year contract that provides teachers with a 6 -
percent salary increase
next year and 5 -
percent raises in each of the following years.
The minimum proficiency rate that schools are required to meet will be
raised gradually to 100
percent over the
next 12 years.
[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.
The
next step should address the fact that approximately 25
percent of black children were being
raised in single - parent families.
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.
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.
It wasn't until 2014, an election year, that lawmakers offered teachers an average pay increase of 7
percent, with the bulk of those
raises going to beginning teachers and experienced teachers getting
next to nothing.
Only 13
percent of students from closing D.C. schools have signed up to stay in the traditional school system
next year, Chancellor Kaya Henderson said Tuesday,
raising questions about whether the school closures are driving families into charter schools.
Let's say a school with primarily Black students
raised its graduation rate by 1
percent next year.
Teachers thought they had it pretty good when the union and Mayor Bill de Blasio agreed to a new contract that provides 18
percent raises over the
next five years, but now parents are mounting an aggressive campaign to eliminate teacher tenure and weed out unsatisfactory teachers, CBS 2's Marcia Kramer reported Wednesday.