Sentences with phrase «single salary schedule»

The traditional single salary schedule, however, is not well suited to the demands of today's reform environment.

Besides challenging seniority - based layoffs, the shortage of experienced math and science teachers in inner - city districts — a problem that single salary schedules make worse — could inspire a lawsuit.

To date, most states and districts have chosen an «add - on» approach to reforming teacher pay, retaining the traditional single salary schedule while providing stipends for some expertise, such as National Board certification, or extra pay for teachers in a shortage area.

In short, the single salary schedule by which almost all public school teachers are paid is essential to the financial and political power of established interests.

For more than a century, public education has worked under a single salary schedule that compensates teachers for college credits, education degrees, and years of experience, but not for their effectiveness in the classroom.

For people impatient to see the single salary schedule get out of the way, ProComp is not ambitious enough.

As Jupp says, «We are in an exceptional moment, one where the single salary schedule can no longer support the pressures placed on it.»

Though perhaps influenced by the special circumstances ProComp created — it lifted a cap on annual salary increases that, due to our single salary schedule, became effective following the 13th year of service — the results refuted the stereotype of the change - averse senior teacher.

For at least two and a half decades, political leaders and opinion makers have been telling teachers and union leaders like me that it is high time to move away from the single salary schedule.

We recognize, however, that we are in an exceptional moment, one where the single salary schedule can no longer support the pressures placed on it by the expectations of a 21st - century public education system.

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.

Nearly everyone agrees on the need to dispatch the «single salary schedule,» but hardly anyone agrees on what should replace it.

Since its introduction in Denver and Des Moines in 1921, the single salary schedule has become virtually universal in public education.

The single salary schedule was in place almost everywhere long before teachers bargained collectively.

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.

The following proposals suggest how teacher compensation can be aligned with current education policy while retaining the spirit of the single salary schedule — namely, that individuals with the same qualifications should earn the same salary.

The new version of the resolution, which passed with no floor debate, begins by saying that «The National Education Association believes that the single salary schedule is the most transparent and equitable system for compensating education employees.»

The single salary schedule has ruled the delivery of teacher pay for decades, despite long - standing criticism that it fails to link some portion of teachers «pay to their performance.