It is also true that, on average, charter and
private school teachers do not enjoy the salaries and benefits that their public counterparts do.
While many
private school teachers do hold teaching certifications, it's not usually a requirement.
I do know that in California, private school teachers don't even need a credential.
About 97 percent of public school teachers claim to be certified in their teaching area, while only 83 percent of charter school and 54 percent of
private school teachers do (see Figure 2).
Not exact matches
The poll on education funding,
done by Environics Research for the Alberta
Teachers Association, dealt only with public attitudes about public funding for
private schools.
House Speaker Michael Madigan blamed
teacher unions on Friday for killing a proposal to send tax dollars to
private schools, claiming the powerful lobby doesn't want competition for Illinois public
schools.
Who in their right mind would even want the job of
school superintendent: parents hate you,
teachers hate you (if you're
doing your job)-- and the pay scale for superintendents is absurdly below what would be paid to a
private sector CEO / COO managing the people and contracts and mandates that public
school superintendents manage.
The senator, the former Erie County Sheriff, noted he co-sponsored a bill to expand the criminal statute of limitations in abuse cases sponsored and in January introduced a bill to close a loophole that
does not require
private school teachers and administrators — unlike their public
school counterparts — to report allegations of abuse.
Public
school teachers do have lower unemployment rates than other white - collar professionals, lower even than
private school teachers, who lose their jobs almost twice as often.
If
schools were under private management, the union contract might call for an equity stake in the corporation, as does the agreement in Miami - Dade County for teachers working in Edison S
schools were under
private management, the union contract might call for an equity stake in the corporation, as
does the agreement in Miami - Dade County for
teachers working in Edison
SchoolsSchools.
This suggests that
private schools may slightly prefer uncertified
teachers and that charter
schools probably have less demand for them than public
schools do.
If
school systems used modern 401 (k)- style defined - contribution plans, early departing
teachers could take their retirement savings with them, as many
private - sector employees currently
do.
For when families are allowed to leave the regular public
schools for new options — charter
schools or (via vouchers or tax credits)
private schools — the regular public
schools lose money and jobs, and so
do the incumbent
teachers in those
schools.
Perhaps Jay would not defend higher education here, asserting instead that if we just shift
teacher prep to
school districts or to
private providers, they could all
do it smarter or better.
The source said «it would be stupid to stop brilliant
teachers who want to be able to switch from
private to state
schools from
doing so».
More
private elementary
school teachers (82 percent)
do this than public
school teachers (72 percent).
The omnipresence of former public -
school teachers who say they came to teach in a
private school so they didn't have to «deal with» state standards and tests.
Teachers in private secondary schools have more positive opinions about their principal, school administration, fellow teachers, and students than teachers in public schools do, a study by the U.S. Education Department ha
Teachers in
private secondary
schools have more positive opinions about their principal,
school administration, fellow
teachers, and students than teachers in public schools do, a study by the U.S. Education Department ha
teachers, and students than
teachers in public schools do, a study by the U.S. Education Department ha
teachers in public
schools do, a study by the U.S. Education Department has found.
(In fact, during the NCLB era, public
school teacher turnover
did rise a bit, but
private school turnover rose even more.)
It astounds me that
teachers and administrators, especially in
private schools, still think it is acceptable to offer such vague answers to parents, or worse, profess that they don't want to hamstring
teachers» and students» «creativity.»
And unlike
teachers at
private schools, charter
school teachers don't get the shield of the National Labor Relations Act, which contains some of the nation's strongest protections against unfair labor practices.
Private schools, unlike the traditional public variety, don't have bloated administrations and a gargantuan bureaucracy to feed and can fire bad
teachers.
Generally, prospective
teachers do not need to meet state standards and have a teaching license in order to teach in a
private school.
With this said,
private school teachers usually
do not make as much money as public
school teachers.
What is unique to
private schools, however, is the fact that many
teachers do not have to be certified to teach.
Warped opinions about our nation's public
schools include: they are inferior to
private schools; they are among the worst in the world in math and science;
teachers should be fired if their students don't score at the national average, and on and on.
That doesn't mean that
private school teachers aren't as qualified as public
school teachers, it just means that
private schools don't rely on standardized tests to determine a candidate's ability to excel in the classroom.
Los Angeles Unified
School District alone employs 27,747 teachers, which doesn't account for the thousands more employed by charters (typically younger and more likely to burn out) or private school tea
School District alone employs 27,747
teachers, which doesn't account for the thousands more employed by charters (typically younger and more likely to burn out) or
private school tea
school teachers.
Second grade
teacher Jessica Moy said she feels more as part of a collaborative team at KIPP than she
did previously at a
private school and a different charter
school.
You don't want [
private provider]
teachers getting mentored and reaching quality and then getting stolen by the
school district classrooms.
Smaller class sizes,
private schooling, homework and discipline
do not make a difference to the quality of education, explains education expert John Hattie — «what really matters is interaction with
teachers, clinical teaching, constantly measuring each student's knowledge and responding to their individual needs».
While public
school teachers always need to be certified,
private school teachers often don't need formal certification.
That growth has come despite critics who contend that vouchers divert money from public
schools to
private institutions that
do not have the same student - testing or
teacher - accountability rules and can freely mix education with religion.
Most parents with children in public
schools do not support recent changes in education policy, from closing low - performing
schools to shifting public dollars to charter
schools to
private school vouchers, according to a new poll to be released Monday by the American Federation of
Teachers.
I've witnessed new head of
school in early 40's,
private school, get rid of all
teachers older, and bring in young, recent college grads, who can view the head as being wise and all knowing Education Guru, despite the contrary being true, and be forever grateful for their first job and never challenge anything the head
does or says.
Absent from the trip were
teacher's groups and others in Florida who criticize the tax credit scholarship program for diverting needed funding from the public
schools to send children to
private, often religious,
schools that don't have to meet state standards.
And it's the
teachers unions in every state leading the charge to keep the poor trapped in their failing public
schools,
doing whatever it takes to keep them from getting a voucher to attend a better
private school.
The city also benefited from Mr. Klein's role as a national symbol of
school reform, Ms. Tisch said, with
private donors giving millions of dollars to help create new projects and experiments, like
teacher performance bonuses and cash rewards for students who
did well on exams.
A 2014 Education Next poll found that 19 percent of public
school teachers send their own kids to
private schools, while just 14 percent of the public
does.
Some of these uniquely American solutions — charter
schools,
private school vouchers, entrepreneurial innovations, grade - by - grade testing, diminished
teachers» unions, and basing
teachers» pay on how their students
do on standardized tests — may be appealing on their surface.
In general,
private school teachers have more resources than public
school teachers do, and they also enjoy smaller class sizes and other benefits.
For example, the current
teacher contract doesn't provide for bonuses, so signing and year - end bonuses may come from
private donations, rather than the
school district, he said.
I watch what happened in Wisconsin, what happened in Indiana... what happened in Pennsylvania... we see the [GOP Gov. Tom] Corbetts of the world, the [GOP Gov. Rick] Scotts of the world, basically
do the following: starve the
schools... relentlessly criticize them, [push]
private alternatives, demonize the
teachers, and marginalize those who try to fight to reclaim the promise of public education...
My own mantra is this: all the
teacher can
do — whether a graduate of Harvard's
School of Education or a TFA academy, whether in a public school or a private or parochial one — is offer to the children in his / her classroom what that teacher
School of Education or a TFA academy, whether in a public
school or a private or parochial one — is offer to the children in his / her classroom what that teacher
school or a
private or parochial one — is offer to the children in his / her classroom what that
teacher knows.
The numbers
do lump
private school teachers and public
school teachers together in one category, and they
do not include other education employees, but they
do confirm in 2014 what occurred for the first time in 2013: There are more non-union
teachers than union
teachers in the United States.
Parents whose children attend
private schools or well - funded public
schools don't have to choose between having experienced
teachers and smaller classes, and neither should we.
So instead of creating quality
schools in every neighborhood, what CPS has
done is created this two - tier system and actually is closing down, as you said, neighborhood
schools under Renaissance 2010 and replacing them with charter
schools and a privatized education system, firing or laying off, I should say, certified
teachers, dismantling locally elected
school councils, and creating a market of public education in Chicago, turning
schools over to
private turnaround operators.
Private schools do not have the same certification requirements but may offer higher starting salaries and better opportunities for advancement to certified
teachers, as certification is an objective standard of quality and training.
The law also
does not require
private schools to disclose what kinds of
teachers they employ (and no
teacher need have more than a high
school diploma) and how well their students are faring in their classrooms unless they have more than 25 students who use the taxpayer - funded vouchers.
Among elementary and middle
school teachers only (we are excluding administrators, and we don't know if they are public charter
school, DCPS or
private school teachers), the gap is 20 percent.