Sentences with phrase «raise for teachers over»

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.

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She was a substitute teacher for over 20 years, she volunteered at the local library, she helped raise grants for the public school system, and was a key contributor to Keep Dickinson Beautiful.

As the Chicago Board of Education prepares to approve a 2011 - 12 budget Wednesday, school officials and the teachers union are battling publicly over related issues of withdrawn raises and the mayor's push for a longer school day.

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.

Over the past several years, the Board of Regents and the Department have raised standards for our teachers and are working to uplift the entire profession through efforts such as TeachNY.

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.

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.

Meanwhile, charming slacker gym teacher Jason Segel patiently waits for Diaz to get over herself enough to appreciate his humble charms, and to a lesser extent, get the fake breasts she's stealing and scheming to raise money to buy.

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.

Thousands of teachers will head to the state capital on Wednesday to call for a nearly $ 10,000 raise over four years and an increase to per - pupil spending.

Good teachers not only get their job back, but they also get an extremely generous pay raise over the next four years for staying and being good.

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.

After training thousands of teachers over the past five years in a massive effort to raise reading achievement, Oklahoma officials are worried that the exercise may have been for naught.

At Conference, Top Admins Weigh Ups, Downs of Virtual Education Harvard Crimson, 9/17/14 [Dean James] Ryan raised concern over a lack of training in technological literacy and virtual education for teachers, particularly for K - 12 teachers, at his school and others.

Two associations, the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) and the National Association for School Business Managers (NASBM), have raised concerns over plans to reduce «per place funding» for mainstream schools with special units from # 10,000 to # 6,000.

She became a vocal critic of the standardized testing movement and raised alarms on the outsize role that testing is playing in public education: taking over the time students spend in the classroom, being used as a weapon against their teachers, and distracting from the real problem of unequal opportunities for students.

There are, for example, no statistics on the percentage of ELL students in the schools, no numbers on the privately raised funds the schools put to use, and only cursory gestures, in Kenny's book, to the controversy over students counseled out of or removed from these charter - school classrooms and to their teacher turnover rate.

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.

Rayner also criticised the government over teacher workload, and raised the case of a school in Rochdale which was criticised by a coroner for adding to the stress of a teacher who went on to kill herself last year.

We train observers for inter-rater reliability, conduct workshops on understanding the model and utilizing classroom strategies for best results, and share proven tools for building teacher capacity over time to raise student achievement.

Teacher assistant funding has already been cut back dramatically over the years, and last year hundreds of teacher assistant positions were eliminated once again thanks to a budgetary maneuver that siphoned $ 105 million away from TAs to pay for the Teacher assistant funding has already been cut back dramatically over the years, and last year hundreds of teacher assistant positions were eliminated once again thanks to a budgetary maneuver that siphoned $ 105 million away from TAs to pay for the teacher assistant positions were eliminated once again thanks to a budgetary maneuver that siphoned $ 105 million away from TAs to pay for the raises.

While lawmakers raised beginning teachers» salaries in 2014 and 2015, veteran teachers were for the most part left behind, with minuscule pay bumps over the past several years, base salaries capped at $ 50,000 and salary supplements eliminated for teachers who earn master's degrees.

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.

Joel I. Klein, who presided over a radical reorganization of the New York City school system and drew praise and criticism for efforts to raise test scores and hold teachers accountable for them, resigned on Tuesday as chancellor after eight years in the job.

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JACKSON — State senators want to end the election of local school superintendents, raise the requirements for becoming a teacher and limit the state's ability to take over schools in Mississippi.

We have made textbook companies and test publishers prosperous while we engage in a rigorous debate over a 2 % raise for a teacher.

In addition to the pay raises — 20 percent over five years — the pact streamlines grievance procedures and calls for a redoubled commitment to teacher professional development.

Fueling the impasse announced yesterday between the teachers union, UTLA, and LA Unified is a dispute over so - called «unaccounted» sources of money that the teachers union says could be used for raises and other demands.

All teachers will still be awarded raises from the same pool of money for traditional public schools, and Pike, the union leader, worries that pool will shrink over time, particularly as the state spends more on private school vouchers and charter schools.

The Raise Your Hand Texas Foundation announced the launch of Raising Texas Teachers, a program to provide $ 50 million over the next 10 years in scholarship funding for students committed to a career in teaching, and technical support for premier Texas teacher preparation programs.

With nearly 20 years of experience, KnowledgeWorks has helped more than 12,000 teachers grow learner - centered practices, raising academic expectations for over 135,000 students.

Over the weekend a quickly - formed school board candidate fund - raiser was put together by the Utah Technology Council, among others, with House Speaker Greg Hughes, R - Draper, and Senate President Wayne Niederhauser, R - Sandy, called in to help raise money for some of the remaining school board incumbents feeling the heat from the Utah Education Association — the main teacher union in the state.

While it made headlines for being the largest pay raise teachers received in any state that year, it also only was enough to bring the state's declining pay back to the same level it had been before Republicans took over the Legislature.

Ryan raised concern over a lack of training in technological literacy and virtual education for teachers, particularly for K - 12 teachers, at his school and others.

Another example involved preservice teachers who raised money and, in consultation with the host teacher via email (conducted directly with the host teacher without faculty involvement), purchased a set of reference books for the host classroom, additional books for the school library, and supplies for the host teacher (they had found that the teacher was spending over $ 500 per year of her own money on class materials).

The Baltimore City school administrators who never raised a cent on their own and could never claim «I built that» even if it came to a teachers» lounge, recently wasted over $ 500,000 in public funds (that's taxpayer money) on expensive local hotel suites, lavish dinners and even wings at Hooters for students «because that was what they wanted,» and The Sun was so outraged by their indefensible waste of taxpayer money that it was called a «distraction» in an editorial.

Head teachers from across Wales have raised concerns over the «unexpectedly low» results for GCSE English language exams sat earlier this year.

Some thirty academics and teachers from all over Europe came together for three days to exchange experiences on reaching young people and raising historical awareness of wars and other conflicts.

As a teacher for over 30 years, I have found the Positive Discipline approach the most helpful philosophy in guiding parents towards raising children who are capapble, confident and independent.