The next chart adds an extra trend line to the one above: the number
of public school employees divided by the number of students enrolled.
Public school employees who are concerned about losing their jobs, desirable assignments, or material rewards are much more likely to cooperate with efforts to respond to a competitive threat.
Indeed, current and
former public school employees are 21 percentage points more likely to claim that they voted in their last school board election than is everyone else (see Figure 8).
Obviously, no parent wants to send her children to a school where they feel unsafe, and we are
certain public school employees want the best for their students.
Except for opinions on school choice issues, differences across ethnic groups are generally smaller than those
between public school employees and those who have never been employed by the schools.
The
Michigan Public School Employees Retirement System (MPSERS) has caused fiscal stress for the state's public education system with $ 29.1 billion in unfunded liabilities.
Given Osiris's strong five - year record of growth and profitability, Bowers was able to help make Miller's wishes come true: he structured a deal that raised $ 13 million from a large local pension fund — the
Pennsylvania Public School Employees Retirement System (see «What Pension Funds Want,» [Article link]-RRB--- by selling a package of subordinated debt and convertible preferred stock, which included a fixed interest rate and dividend yield.
The Association of Harford County Administrative, Technical and Supervisory Professionals (AHCATSP) is the
exclusive public school employee organization for all non-certified supervisors.
The Harford County Education Association (HCEA) is the exclusive
public school employee organization for all teachers, guidance counselors, psychologists, media specialists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, and speech and hearing clinicians.
This may include: teachers, paraprofessionals, administrators, support staff, bus drivers, security personnel, cafeteria staff, substitute teachers,
public school employees providing services at a non-public school, school volunteers, school board members, coaches, and pre-service and intern teachers.
Twenty principals and assistant principals are among 26 current and former
Chicago Public Schools employees who provided false income information on applications to get their children into the federal free or reduced - price lunch program, according to CPS Inspector General James Sullivan.
Several state GOP lawmakers — swashbuckling newcomers among them — yesterday introduced a bill that would bar raises for teachers and
other public school employees and outlaw strikes.
The same path could have been taken
with public school employees without the political distortions that public employee unions introduce by virtue of having their interests represented on both sides of the bargaining table.
She admitted public employees were easy targets for the governor and Republican lawmakers because of generous pensions and benefits, which Bell noted were mostly a result of former Republican Gov. Tommy Thompson's qualified economic offer law that gave better benefits in return for salary concessions to
public school employees several years ago.
Would layoffs and furloughs of school teachers and employees help fill the shortfall?Florida has more than 323,780 full -
time public school employees, including 189,429 instructional staff, making Florida's public school system one of the largest employers in the state.
LANSING, Mich. (AP)- The Michigan Senate has approved a compromise bill that would end state - provided health coverage in retirement for
new public school employees and require current workers to pay more for their pensions.
The think tank's public sector payroll analysis found the
average public school employee who is eligible for a pension of more than $ 100,000 has doubled over the last six years — from 1,255 to 3,010.
The program generally covers people with federal student loans who work for 10 years at a government or nonprofit organization, a diverse group that
includes public school employees, museum workers, doctors at public hospitals and firefighters.
Public school employees like occupational and physical therapists bill much of their work through Medicaid, which also provides dental, vision, hearing, and mental health services.
Five
Detroit Public Schools employees have been charged with embezzlement in an ongoing probe into the «culture of corruption» that took hold in the state's largest district, a prosecutor said Wednesday....
When asked about the schools around the nation, whites, Hispanics, and African Americans offer similar assessments, as
do public school employees and the remaining population.
Rethinking Residency: A growing roster of unfilled teaching posts has prompted Philadelphia officials to rethink the city's rules that
require public school employees to live in town.
Grant Design Team members are all
Oakland public school employees and include at least two full - time Oakland public school teachers (PreK - 12 in district - run or charter - run Oakland schools)
Participation in some VDOE - sponsored opportunities may be limited to school - based teams of
current public school employees authorized to attend by their division superintendent.
So what I found was that
while public school employees increased four times as fast as the increase in students, teachers increased two and a half times as fast as the increase in students, which led to significant class size reductions.
It is now time that members of the PFT join the thousands of
public school employees across the state who already contribute to their health care costs.»
Taking a look at the latest numbers available, courtesy of Mike Antonucci, we see that the National Education Association lost 42,000 active members in 2013, «bringing the union's total losses among
working public school employees to more than 310,000 (10.7 %) over the past five years.»
Students in private schools may obtain IEPs by requesting an evaluation
from public school employees, who are required to provide them for students suspected of having a disability.
School choice battles incite bitter resistance from one of the largest, most politically potent and well - financed set of economic interests in the nation:
public school employee unions.
The
Pennsylvania Public School Employees» Retirement System, for instance, requires working members to contribute an average of 7.37 percent of their monthly income to the state retirement system.