Sentences with phrase «salary boosts for»

, would provide significant salary boosts for beginning teachers.

Gov. Pat McCrory's initial teacher pay plan, revealed in February, would provide significant salary boosts for beginning teachers.

David Cameron was coming under increasing pressure to rule out taking a pay rise today, after plans for a major 11 % salary boost for MPs were unveiled.

It also recommends that the government help to create 1000 new STEM - focused schools across the country and assist in a $ 15,000 - a-year salary boost for a cadre of 22,000 master math and science teachers with exemplary records of boosting student achievement and participation in science.

However, the survey delivers good news for those who prioritize cold, hard cash above the more abstract elements of compensation: 71 per cent of respondents forecast a salary boost for associates in 2017, ranging typically between two and 10 per cent on top of current levels.

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What's more, the researchers found that for American men, weight gain is actually linked to a boost in salary.

Pharmacists, for instance, usually make top - dollar salaries straight out of school, but the potential to significantly boost their paychecks later is nearly nil.

Record low unemployment rates are pushing up salaries, which could catalyze consumer spending, a welcome boost for corporate profits, equities, and economic growth.

Desperate for money after years of neglect by the state Legislature, Palm Beach County schools may ask voters in November to approve a new tax to boost teacher salaries and supplement school security and mental health care.

if he was a young player I would've understand him choosing a «safe route» over a gamble but the fella is 29 and while I respect his loyalty, I think a move to Arsenal would've boosted his living environment, salary, prospects for playing overseas before retiring etc..

The midfielder's current deal runs until 2016, but reports in Italy suggest the Bianconeri want to renew his deal for a further three years, boosting his salary from # 2.4 m per year to # 2.8 m.

I see no reason why Ramos would want to leave the biggest club in the world for such a hazardous project, unless it's for the boost in salary — which he just as well could as for at Real Madrid.

Sen. Eric Adams, who drew widespread criticism for his «show me the money» speech on the Senate floor in 2007 while debating a legislative pay raise, has shelved his call for a salary boost — at least for the time being.

One day after Mayor Bill de Blasio signaled his support for a New York Police Department review of the department's practice of allowing officers on modified duty to boost their salaries with overtime pay, U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of Brooklyn said the administration could not be trusted to conduct that review and asked the federal Department of Justice to intervene.

She said the Legislature eventually validated her actions by making the boosted salary rates the new base pay for her staff.

That's why I've called for diverting $ 45 million from the state's $ 420 million film and television production tax credit to go for boosting salaries for our direct care workers.

The 51 - member council on Feb. 5 is expected to push through a hefty raise package for all elected city officials that could include boosting council members» salaries to as high as $ 150,000, the sources said.

Senator Tom Libous, their deputy leader, is under indictment for lying to F.B.I. agents about an alleged scheme to boost his son's salary by having the Senator ask a lobbyist to steer business to the law firm that employed him.

For the fourth consecutive year, de Blasio plans to hand out money to boost the salaries of school - bus drivers under a program that has already cost taxpayers nearly $ 100 million.

One day after NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio signaled his support for a NYPD review of the department's practice of allowing officers on modified duty to boost their salaries with overtime pay, Brooklyn Rep. Hakeem Jeffries said the administration could not be trusted to conduct that review and asked the federal Department of Justice to intervene.

David Bookstaver, a longtime spokesman for the state court system, accidentally butt - dialed a NYC Post reporter, who heard Bookstaver joking with colleagues that he barely shows up to work while pocketing a $ 166,000 - plus salary and boosting his taxpayer - funded pension.

A legislative pay commission last considered salary increases in 2016, but the panel ultimately declined to boost legislative pay amid a parallel push for an end - of - year special session.

The Public Employees Union accused Paterson of hypocrisy for boosting the salaries of his own team while forcing weekly furloughs on 10,000 public - sector workers.

Gov. Phil Murphy signed a bill into law Friday that will boost salaries for New Jersey's judges, cabinet officials, county prosecutors and top legislative aides.

A bill that would boost salaries for New Jersey's judges, cabinet officials, county prosecutors and top legislative aides is up for a final vote Thursday in the state Senate and Assembly.

Like several other state legislators, Rodriguez is making a run this year for City Council, attempting to leave behind the many commutes to Albany and to boost his base salary by nearly 100 %, from the $ 79,500 of a state legislator to the $ 148,000 of a City Council member.

Francis Becker on Monday, Dec. 7, 2015, discusses a pay raise for Nassau lawmakers, who voted to boost their salaries from $ 39,500 to $ 75,000 beginning in 2018.

This much - needed boost gets the ball rolling toward long - range goals for higher salaries for all Stanford postdocs.

And, at least as set out in the current plan, which also includes significant increases in stipends for NSF doctoral fellows, the boost in salaries «would not be at the expense of existing NSF programs,» says NSF spokesperson Mary Hanson.

The findings suggest that truly large boosts in salary would be needed, particularly for women.

Rhee didn't say how she would pay for the salary boosts, although she implied that foundations would pick up much of the tab.

Such pay innovations should also boost student achievement and, because they are based on performance, strengthen the argument for dramatically raising teacher salaries — at least for those with the highest levels of professional expertise.

In nearly every year over the past decade (and in every year we have asked the relevant questions), we have found much less enthusiasm for boosting per pupil expenditures and teacher salaries among those who are first told how much these items are actually costing the district.

Across the country, salaries generally start low — much lower than for other professionals — although there are boosts for advanced degrees and other credentials.

Granted, the boost to starting salaries is not as great as some advocates would like — the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce has called for starting salaries of $ 45,000 — but remember that this new schedule is based on the arbitrary decision to reward credentials that improve test scores by 1 percent of a standard deviation with a 1 percent boost in salary.

On the other side of the spectrum, teachers rated «highly effective» are eligible for a bonus of up to $ 25,000, and repeated high ratings trigger a permanent salary boost.

With the city of Philadelphia facing severe financial problems, a program that boosts salaries for some senior teachers in the city school district — at a cost totaling up to $ 16 million this school year — is raising some eyebrows.

He criticized low admissions standards; curriculums that «lack coherence and connections to the work that's actually done in the field»; clinical programs devoted to mere shadowing of practitioners, whether they are successful or not; «watered - down» dissertations with little connection to practice; and a pervasive race among teachers to acquire credit for leadership courses, and thus boost their salaries, without any interest in actually assuming positions of greater authority.

The tight budgetary environment played a big supporting role in the D.C. contract, in which teachers got a 21.6 % salary boost and a bucket of bonus dollars in return for substantial concessions on job protections, seniority, and merit pay.

Next, a school district in Illinois just awarded its teachers a 10 - year contract that includes a 40 percent salary increase over its term, preserves a pre-retirement, 6 percent yearly pay spike to boost teachers» pensions, an increase in sick - days from 15 to 24 per year, and a freeze on health insurance and prescription drug costs for district employees for the 10 - year period.

(EdSource)-- Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's call for a dramatic boost in teacher salaries comes at a time when many teachers in California are experiencing lower compensation as a result of cuts in school funding.

After the Department of Education earmarked $ 16 million to boost recommended salaries for private Pre-K for All providers in 2014, a lead teacher in a private program who has a bachelor's degree and initial certification may now earn $ 44,000, according to the department's press secretary, Devora Kaye.

At a February news conference in Greensboro, Gov. Pat McCrory unveiled his plan for lawmakers to consider this spring that would boost the salaries for beginning teachers from where they are stuck at now — $ 30,800 — to $ 35,000 by 2015.

The shift from a veteran - dominated teaching workforce to one more heavily tilted toward newcomers has implications for how we calculate average teacher salaries and the policies needed to boost teacher compensation.

To catch up with middle - of - the - pack Finland, for example, the U.S. would need to boost salaries of elementary, middle, and high school teachers by 10, 18, and 28 percent, respectively (Startz, 2016).

Lawmakers also cut a salary supplement for teachers who obtain advanced degrees, which amounts to around a 10 percent boost to their pay.

Across the state, more than 50 school boards said they wanted the law to be repealed, and many teachers pledged not to sign contracts in exchange for the promised salary boost.

But the Senate plan would cut more than 6,000 teacher assistant jobs to help pay for that larger salary boost.

They range from the expected — proposed salary boosts and other financial compensation for teachers — to the unexpected, like bills to allow schools to sell and place ads on school buses and to permit students to apply their own sunscreen.

With 80 to 85 percent of a school's budget tied up in salaries and benefits for employees, he said, the only options often are to boost class sizes or cut programs.