Sentences with phrase «salary pay schedules»

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It also includes the not so obvious: earning the salary, paying the bills, maintaining the house, calling the insurance company about that surprise medical bill, researching all the possible causes of that weird cough your baby has been doing lately, scheduling tours of daycare centers, getting that promotion or signing that big client, researching life insurance plans, getting the oil changed like clockwork because you really need this car to last you, plus taking breaks so that you can recharge....

«The commission would be required to propose a two - tiered legislative pay schedule that would set one salary for elected officials who do not earn any outside income and a lower salary for those who do.

One idea the panel will develop is coming up with a «two - tiered legislative pay schedule that would set one salary for elected officials who do not earn any outside income and a lower salary for those who do,» the Cuomo administration said in a news release.

Anticipating that we would receive little sympathy if we were being paid substantially more than other BNL staff members, we compared our salaries to others at BNL using a comprehensive list of pay schedules for all employee categories, with the exception of postdocs.

The practice is generally discouraged, however, because temporary teachers are not permitted to join a union (and hence are not eligible for scheduled salary increases or benefits), and are paid lower salaries.

Early in the 20th century, opposition to overt discrimination and demand for greater teacher skills led to the current single - salary schedule, which pays the same salary to teachers with the same qualifications regardless of grade level taught, gender, or race.

In Alabama, the state's «Race to the Top» application originally proposed merit pay and a «new salary schedule that would give more money to math, science and special - education teachers,» but that portion of the application was deleted, reported the Press - Register (Mobile), «after Alabama Education Association leader Paul Hubbert wrote state Superintendent Joe Morton a letter... opposing them»

In «Scrap the Sacrosanct Salary Schedule,» Jacob Vigdor looks at how the current system of teacher pay offers too few rewards for younger teachers.

The union still has a salary schedule, but teacher evaluations determine base pay.

Merit pay plans are expensive, especially if the performance awards are added to the salary schedule, so there are questions about whether the extra funds will continue to be available during the next economic downturn.

Indeed, each individual teacher is paid according to local salary schedules, which tend to give increases as teachers age into the workforce.

Despite a recent wave of reform, the vast majority of school districts nationwide continue to pay teachers based on salary schedules that fail to differentiate among teachers based on their subject - area expertise.

What is remarkable is that Solmon, a former education dean, Jupp, a union leader, and Koppich, a «new union» advocate, agree that the debate is no longer whether to throw out the single salary schedule by which most of our teachers are paid, but what to replace it with.

Most of that money was paid out using traditional single - salary compensation schedules, a system that typically pays the same salary to all teachers with the same level of education and number of years in the classroom.

The new salary schedule includes several pay elements based on knowledge and skills, contingency pay, and an award based on school performance.

A 1962 RAND Corporation study on teacher pay described teacher salary schedules in the following way:

If a single - salary schedule for a school district yields a large surplus of qualified applicants for elementary education, social studies, and physical education, but no qualified applicants in physics or speech pathology, is teachers» pay in this district adequate?

The salary schedule rewarded teachers for investing their time and personal funds in further education, and it ended the longstanding practice of paying men more than women and white teachers more than minorities.

Salam goes on to cite Jacob Vigdor, who tackled the problem of teacher pay schedules for us in his 2008 article «Scrap the Sacrosanct Salary Schedule.»

For most of the century just past, and into the current one, school districts have paid their teachers according to a «single salary schedule,» a pay scheme that bases an individual teacher's salary on two factors: years of experience (steps) and number of education credits and degrees (lanes).

Introduced in Denver and Des Moines in 1921, the single salary schedule was meant to resolve the inequities of an era when women, minorities, and elementary school teachers were paid less than their counterparts.

Although a recent union election cast doubt on the durability of the arrangement, Cincinnati has become the first public school district in the country to scrap the traditional salary schedule in favor of a system that pays teachers according to their classroom performance.

But the state's salary schedule largely determines the rewards paid to teachers across the state.

The lighter bars track the returns paid out in the 2007 — 08 salary schedule, relative to the salary for starting teachers.

Even a teacher entering the profession with a master's degree is better off under the evidence - based salary schedule, even though it pays no reward for the advanced degree.

The costs of paying new teachers on the evidence - based schedule while keeping existing teachers on the traditional schedule would peak after 10 years, at which point savings associated with the flattened rewards for experience would begin to outweigh the costs of higher salaries to younger teachers.

Across the nation, extra pay for a master's degree is deeply ingrained in the salary schedule.

An evidence - based salary schedule, accordingly, would pay no automatic premium for these degrees.

The discriminatory impact of this compromise lessened as the gender gap in master's degree attainment narrowed, and more subtle means of discrimination were hampered by nearly universal adoption of the uniform salary schedule, with teachers» pay based only on experience and education.

The AFT claims that the authors found that charter schools determine pay «in a similar manner to most school districts,» but Podgursky and Ballou in fact found charters far more likely to use merit pay and far less likely to use traditional salary schedules.

In fact, their salary schedules give teachers an incentive to take these courses in order to increase their pay, without their having any intention of becoming a principal.

Florida's budget troubles have left the country's fourth - largest school district unable to pay teachers for advancing on the salary schedule or to offer cost - of - living raises.

Each teacher is paid according to a district - wide salary schedule.

First, public school teachers cling to unprofessional salary schedules and terms of employment that make it impossible to pay them based on their performance and market demand.

Now, with Republican governors like Scott Walker in Wisconsin and John Kasich in Ohio publicly taking on collective bargaining for public school teachers, replacing strict salary schedules with merit pay, and introducing value - added measures into decisions about salaries and tenure, events have caught up to his message.

More likely, over time, the measure will lay the groundwork for introducing more private - sector innovations, such as merit pay and the elimination of tenure and salary schedules, into public education in Colorado.

The superintendent's HR office does most of the vetting and placing, but it is shackled by the contract, by state licensure practices (which may be set by an «independent» — and probably union and ed - school dominated — professional - standards board), by seniority rules that are probably enshrined in both contract and state law, and by uniform salary schedules that mean the new teacher (assuming similar «credentials») will be paid the same fixed amount whether the subject most needed at Lincoln is math or music.

To find out, I took a look at the 2010 salary schedule in Dade County, Florida's largest school district, which serves the Miami metropolitan area, as part of my preparation for the conference on Merit Pay, which Harvard's Program on Education Policy and Governance is sponsoring on June 3 - 5.

This has a meaningful impact on their salaries since most district salary schedules assign the most significant pay bumps to additional degrees and administrative jobs.

Considering that school district salaries are typically determined by a single districtwide salary schedule, in theory education should be a field without gender - or race - based pay gaps.

While the teachers union came up with the idea for the 10 - year contract, Thompson said the union compromised on key issues such as keeping an unpopular two - tiered pay schedule designed to pay new hires at lower salaries.

The district has not released the full salary schedule that outlines pay increases.

Last week, lawmakers passed a state budget that they promised would offer teachers an average 7 percent raise — but instead of boosting all teachers» pay by a simple percentage, a new salary schedule is in place that offers younger, inexperienced teachers big gains while shortchanging veteran teachers who have gone to great lengths to build on their teaching credentials.

Lawmakers rolled longevity pay, a salary supplement offered to teachers after 10 years of service, into the new teacher pay schedule that was created to go with the teacher pay raises.

Nearly two - thirds of districts are not able to offer pay incentives or differentiated pay to teachers — for example, cash bonuses, salary increases, or different steps on the salary schedule — to reward or recruit teachers.

«I believe they [lawmakers] got rid of longevity pay once in the 1990s, and possibly once in the 80s as well by lumping it into the salary schedule,» said Price.

They will receive the benefits of a higher salary schedule, but they'll also be working for a distict paying off $ 2.5 billion in past promises to teachers.

Last week, lawmakers passed a state budget that they promised would offer teachers an average 7 percent raise — but instead of boosting all teachers» pay by a simple percentage, a new salary schedule is in place that offers younger,...

The pay schedule also keeps teachers» salaries frozen for five years at a time.

Align alternate salary schedules and performance pay measures, create incentives for effective teachers at hard - to - staff schools and provide additional compensation for effective and highly effective teachers.