In general, private school teachers have more
resources than public school teachers do, and they also enjoy smaller class sizes and other benefits.
Not exact matches
Similarly, if
teachers employed by the
public are assigned to teach on parochial
school premises, they tend to come under the administrative aegis of the parochial rather
than the
public school (not that they teach religion, but that they otherwise function to some degree as adjunct faculty, increasing with tax funds the staffing
resources of the parochial
school — a consideration apparently underlying two 1985 decisions but not well articulated by the Supreme Court)
New York State
Resource and Computer Training Centers are the largest professional learning communities in New York State with more
than 125
Teachers Centers located throughout the state, working with 675
public schools districts and nearly 1000 non-
public and charter
schools.
Anyone who views the strings attached to the supposedly increased dollars will immediately see that Pryor, with Malloy and Jepsen to help him, is cynically using the inequities in order to push his agenda of privatizing and increasing the number of charter
schools — which are not better
than well -
resourced, well - staffed (no TFA, please)
public schools — indeed, with their shaming rituals, bare - bones curriculum, and newbie
teachers, they are much worse.
When it comes to traditional
public schools, more
than three out of every four parents surveyed said they were opposed to reducing compensation for
teachers or cutting
resources for the classroom while increasing spending on charter
schools.
At KIPP,
teachers make about $ 10,000 a year more
than their regular
public school counterparts, but they put in longer days, Saturday classes and summer
school - all extra time and extra
resources to lift students who begin KIPP below grade level.
In reality, the Malloy administration's entire maneuver was nothing be a farce designed to, once again, mislead Connecticut's students, parents,
teachers and taxpayers about the unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) testing scheme, and the fact that the tests are wasting millions of dollars in scarce
public resources and turning
public schools into little more
than testing factories.
CABE and CAPSS are two examples of groups that are funded in large part by taxpayer funds but rather
than spend their
resources protecting Connecticut's
public school students, parents,
teachers,
school administrators and taxpayers they are kowtowing to an increasingly unpopular governor and his increasingly unpopular so - called «education reforms.»