Sentences with phrase «raise for teachers»

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

The plan calls for an average 11 percent raise for teachers as long as they give up career status, otherwise known as tenure.

These groups came together to push the task force and lawmakers to consider a proposal that would include raises for all teachers, instead of a pay - for - performance based model.

Across - the - board raises for all teachers, good and bad alike, do not strengthen pupil learning.

The final straw came when I refused to settle a contract and allow raises for teachers without a differentiated pay and accountability structure in place.

The union saw this as proof that the district could afford raises for teachers and that some unpopular budget cuts, such as increases in class size, were unnecessary.

Unless you meant raising taxes for everyone, in which case the whole pay raise for teachers will get offset.

With smart and disciplined budget cuts, we can free up revenue to fund a needed raise for teachers.

Almost $ 7 million would go toward boosting the local supplement, a relatively small additional raise for each teacher.

They say a five percent pay raise for teachers is not enough.

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

N.C. Rep. Craig Horn, an influential budget writer from Union County who chairs the House education appropriations committee, isn't sure he likes the current salary scale for teachers, the one adopted by lawmakers two years ago that nixes annual raises for teachers in favor of a multi-tiered approach with bigger pay bumps every five years.

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

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.

About $ 50 million of a 2010 gift from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg helped pay for provisions in the five - year contract, including higher base salaries for all Newark teachers plus annual raises for teachers who are rated well under a new evaluation system.

Yet, even as state lawmakers approved modest raises for some teachers in recent years, legislators faced withering criticism from education advocacy organizations who pointed out the state's most experienced teachers were left out.

In Buffalo, the city teachers union broke a 12 - year stalemate with a new contract that awards hefty raises for teachers.

As principal negotiator for three contentious contracts in New York, she faced down two mayors, Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg — neither one a pushover — and succeeded in winning a cumulative 43 percent raise for her teachers from 2002 to 2008.

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.

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.

Menomonee Falls and Greendale eliminated additional pay for extra duties and froze scheduled raises for teachers who had reached certain professional - development goals.

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.

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.

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.

Governor McCrory proposed a substantial education budget for 2015 that contains raises for teachers who have gone without for several years.

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.

Berger's plan, which would cost the state $ 468 million in 2014, would encourage all teachers to move off of the current 37 step salary schedule, which has been frozen for several years, onto a more compressed Professional Status Teacher Salary Schedule that offers significant raises for teachers beginning this fall.

As this PBS article states, the majority of people in the United States support raises for teachers (although I think the more important point is raising per - pupil spending overall).

Both the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) and the Oakland Education Association (OEA — the teachers union) have proposed double - digit raises for teachers, but there are key timing and size differences between the two offers.

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.

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

Last week, Republican Gov. Mary Fallin signed a bill that would increase average pay by about $ 6,000 — which would mark the state's first tax increase since 1992, and the first across - the - board raise for teachers since 2008.

This might mean increasing pay in the early years, rewarding teachers who take on leadership roles, freezing yearly raises for teachers who are consistently rated ineffective, and paying more for hard - to - staff roles and assignments.

Here is a late entry for consideration: a study out of Georgetown examining the impact on pension obligations of substantial, late - career raises for teachers.

The exact definition of «highly qualified» is still being refined, but there is no doubt that the bar has been raised for teacher preparation programs and, based on the current status of these programs, there is a huge challenge ahead.

Jewell's comments came hours after state House lawmakers unfurled their full biennial budget, which includes varying raises for teachers and school administrators (page 87 of the House budget) over the next two years.

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...

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.

Two of the contracts include raises for teachers.

Although budget negotiators have yet to reach any agreement on spending or taxes, budgets from the House and Senate both have large increases in state funding for public schools and some cost - of - living raises for teachers, he said.

«Raises for teachers willing to help redefine how students learn» by WBTV reporter Kristen Miranda

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

All four superintendents were grateful for the prospect of some kind of pay raise for teachers that each of the budget proposals put forth.

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.

But School districts face rising costs for employee health care, pensions and annual longevity, or «step» raises for teachers that are built into most union contracts.

Gillum promised an additional billion in education funding is he's elected, while Levine is mulling a $ 10,000 raise for teachers.