Sentences with phrase «reforming teacher compensation»

We're on the verge of dramatically reforming teacher compensation in Tennessee.

Again, these charts don't, by themselves, support any sweeping conclusions about reforming teacher compensation.

Better Pay, Fairer Pensions: Reforming Teacher Compensation, Josh McGee and Marcus Winters, Civic Report 79, September 2013

Despite proliferating chatter about the need to reform teacher compensation, the bulk of teacher pay remains fundamentally unchanged.

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The foundation long backed controversial education reforms, including retooling teacher evaluation and compensation systems based in part on student test scores and creating smaller schools.

His aggressive, bare - knuckle style, cuts to public spending, and well - publicized clashes with the New Jersey Education Association have made the governor a media sensation and shoved his education reform ideas — which include expanding school choice options for students and overhauling teacher tenure, compensation, and pensions — into the national spotlight.

As part of her job, McCown lobbied for higher teacher compensations, change in teacher preparation and training, teacher certification and licensure reform, and teacher support improvements.

Even if they are enacted, however, they will face an uphill battle absent broader reforms to teacher compensation systems — reforms that may be encouraged from Washington but will ultimately require action by state legislatures and local school boards.

Likewise in education, a more strategic compensation structure would tie teacher pay to education reform goals and strategies.

As our country embraces long overdue reforms in teacher hiring, evaluation, tenure, compensation, and school choice, we must not neglect teacher development.

He has written numerous articles for academic journals and other publications on such topics as school finance, school desegregation, school choice, school governance, a right to preschool, teacher compensation reform, and the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

Michelle Rhee and Kaya Henderson, aided by millions of private dollars, were able to institute epic reforms in both teacher evaluations and compensation in the District of Columbia Public Schools.

Rhee, the former chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public schools, and Henderson, her ex-deputy and interim replacement, have pushed aggressive data - driven ed - reform policies that include increasing teacher pay and performance - based compensation, closing low - enrollment schools, and firing underperforming teachers and principals.

But none of them hold as much promise for student learning as any one of the many school reforms on the nation's agenda — student and school accountability, school choice, and changes in teacher recruitment, compensation and retention policies.

Thanks to the unwillingness of most suburban district leaders to embrace the underlying tenets of the No Child Left Behind Act — and their efforts to perpetuate the myth that traditional districts in the «burbs are doing just fine — they have ignored the innovations (including in the area of revamping teacher compensation) embraced by more reform - minded districts in big cities.

She has extensive experience in student achievement data analysis, design and implementation of district data systems, statistical methodologies, and the creation and use of relational databases in teacher evaluation and performance - based compensation reforms.

Catalyst for Change is the final summative report for the Denver Pay - for - Performance initiative that focused on developing a link between student achievement and teacher compensation, and launched a national movement in performance - based reform.

She was the co-lead author of It's More Than Money; Tying Earning to Learning: The Link Between Teacher Compensation and Student Learning Objectives; Focus on Literacy: Professional Development Audit; Catalyst for Change (the summative Denver report on performance - based compensation); and New Directions in Christina (the summative report on systemic reform in Delaware's largesCompensation and Student Learning Objectives; Focus on Literacy: Professional Development Audit; Catalyst for Change (the summative Denver report on performance - based compensation); and New Directions in Christina (the summative report on systemic reform in Delaware's largescompensation); and New Directions in Christina (the summative report on systemic reform in Delaware's largest district).

Joseph P. Frey, Senior Project Director, Senior Associate for National School Reform, is responsible for key CTAC education initiatives relating to teacher evaluation, teacher licensure and certification, performance - based compensation, teacher preparation, state - to - district and state - to - school assistance, and college readiness.

By reforming compensation policies in a way that accounts for the abilities of great teachers to improve student outcomes, we will ensure excellent teachers are richly compensated, and mediocre teachers have a strong incentive to improve.»

Especially for the AFT, the ruling makes it even harder for the union, which works in the big cities that are the most - fervent hotbeds for revamping traditional teacher compensation and implementing other reforms), to keep the grand bargain it has long struck with Baby Boomers and other teachers to keep their profession the most - comfortable (as well as best - paid) in the public sector.

A supplemental compensation fund of $ 375,000 per year will be available to support compensation reform for teachers and principals.

Reforms were on fast track Indeed in Minnesota, where a stalemate between Gov. Tim Pawlenty and the state's largest teachers union resulted in no K - 12 omnibus bill whatsoever last year, even the labor - loving DFL went into this year's legislative session vowing to fast - track such education reforms as alternative paths to teacher licensure, modifications to teacher tenure and tying teacher compensation to student perfoReforms were on fast track Indeed in Minnesota, where a stalemate between Gov. Tim Pawlenty and the state's largest teachers union resulted in no K - 12 omnibus bill whatsoever last year, even the labor - loving DFL went into this year's legislative session vowing to fast - track such education reforms as alternative paths to teacher licensure, modifications to teacher tenure and tying teacher compensation to student perforeforms as alternative paths to teacher licensure, modifications to teacher tenure and tying teacher compensation to student performance.

For example, CTAC presented the cornerstones of effective teacher compensation reform to more than 60 state legislators at the James B. Hunt Institute in North Carolina.

Pushing his education reform agenda, Bush called for ending teacher tenure, implementing teacher evaluations and compensation based on standardized test scores and utilizing alternative paths to certification / licensure.

From appointing reform advocate Stefan Pryor as his education superintendent, to succinctly summing up the problems with tenure and other aspects of traditional teacher compensation... Malloy has made Connecticut one of Dropout Nation «s Five States to Watch on the school reform front.»

Her focus is on education, where the teachers unions have blocked meaningful reforms for years; protecting bad teachers from being terminated, promoting based on seniority instead of merit, taking over local school boards with hand - picked, union - financed candidates, attacking charter schools, prioritizing teacher compensation and job security over student achievement, and pushing a social agenda in front of academic fundamentals.

Maurice Sykes, author Doing the Right Thing for Children: Eight Qualities of Leadership, is the Executive Director of the Early Childhood Leadership Institute at the university of the District of Columbia's National Center for Urban Education, he has spent his career advancing high - quality early educational reform, teacher professional development, advancement and compensation.