Sentences with phrase «raises for teachers rather»

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.

Not exact matches

A sense of being embattled: a reliance perhaps on rules rather than answers to profound questions raised in a rapidly - changing world, a sense of the Church as a fortress rather than a Mother and teacher, a bleak landscape for Biblical studies.

The Chetty, Friedman, and Rockoff study finds that, on average, a 1 standard deviation improvement in teacher value added (equivalent to having a teacher in the 84th percentile rather than one at the median) for one year raises a student's earnings at age 28 by about 1 percent.

For example, experienced teachers could be guaranteed their current salaries, plus cost - of - living adjustments, rather than the original raises on the traditional schedule or the salary declines imposed by an evidence - based schedule.

In this instance, the concept of multiple intelligences may not even be raised directly with students, but, rather, may serve as a tool for fostering dialogue and collaboration among their teachers.

Some teachers are saying they would rather have bigger annual raises than a bonus for tenure.

The Common Core is not a set curriculum but rather a set of standards that raises the expectations we have for our students while allowing teachers to have the flexibility to teach creative problem solving and analytical thinking.

«If you ask most good teachers if they'd rather have tenure or a pay raise, they would swap tenure for a pay raise every time.

FES's effort to raise alarm about school safety appeared rather suddenly; the campaign kicked off just six days after the release of a widely read New York Times story showing a teacher ripping up a young child's worksheet for not understanding a math problem.

If you want to reform the schools so that kids are held accountable, teachers aren't blamed for societal ills, schools get back to educating rather than feeding, clothing, and raising the students, the whole one size fits all mentality... then I'm with you.

My school was much freer: we called our teachers by their first name, our classrooms have a big circle table and no desks, and we can talk and discuss more freely rather than raising hands and asking for permission.