Sentences with phrase «size of salary increases»

Decrease the size of salary increases teachers earn in the latter half of their careers.

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This financial strategy was made explicit by Harvard Business School Professor Michael Jensen, who advocated that salaries and bonuses for corporate managers should be based on how much they can increase the price of their companies» stock, not on how much they increased or production and / or business size.

The size of the pay increase for council members — $ 36,000 — is close to or even higher than the entire annual salaries of many people on their staffs.

While there may be other mechanisms through which increased school spending improves student outcomes, these results suggest that the positive effects are driven, at least in part, by some combination of reductions in class size, having more adults per student in schools, increases in instructional time, and increases in teacher salaries that may help to attract and retain a more highly qualified teaching workforce.

Given that 55 % of K - 12 spending funds teacher salaries and benefits, you can't cut costs without boosting the productivity of good teachers — which requires increasing class size.

Funding inequities, which allow some districts to have state of the art facilities and programs, complete with new computers for all students, quality free athletic programs, and comparatively high teacher salaries, while other districts are forced to cut teachers, increase class sizes, institute pay - to - play athletics, and do away with busing and art programs, need to be addressed.

By contrast, roughly equal numbers of teachers would choose salary increases as would choose class - size reduction.

Even when they are told that «reducing average class sizes by three students would cost roughly the same amount as increasing teacher salaries by $ 10,000,» 44 percent of Americans select class - size reduction, whereas 28 percent select increasing teacher salaries.

Given the stagnation of teacher salaries in the last three decades and the concomitant decline in class sizes, it is somewhat surprising that the public continues to prefer further cuts in class size over increases in teacher salaries.

One group of survey respondents, randomly chosen, was told, «Reducing average class sizes by three students would cost roughly the same amount as increasing teacher salaries by 13 % or buying $ 10,000 in new books and technologies for each class every year.»

Reducing class size is a generally popular idea, but a number of researchers have concluded that increasing teacher salaries may be a better long - term strategy for school improvement.

However, most courts that have historically entered into educational policy areas other than funding have discouraged real structural changes, focusing instead on the continuation of past policies, such as class size reduction or across - the - board salary increases for teachers, which carry with them increased funding.

Along the same lines, parents (53 %) are also more likely than the public (46 %) to think money should be spent on reducing class size rather than increasing teacher salaries or buying new books and technologies — unless they are told the relative cost of each policy.

The United States would have to reduce teacher salaries about 5 percent below their current average of $ 41,460 and increase class size by 10 percent — to nearly 17 students per teacher — to be optimally efficient, the researchers said.

They have already voted no to across the board teacher salary increases and continued the freeze on teachers» salaries that has been in place for 5 years (at the same time passed a tax break for the wealthy, and now, with reduced revenue can not give raises), increased class size, taken away additional pay for Masters degrees, eliminated most of the state's teacher assistants, gone after tenure and offered the top 25 % of the teachers in a district $ 500 to give up their tenure immediately, increased the number of charter schools (many funded by Republicans in the private school business) and finally, the most recent scheme pondered is to let kids go to any school in the state regardless of their home county.

We can not control student socioeconomic levels, school funding, our salaries, our teaching assignments, increasing class sizes, difficult parents, or a host of other important issues.

Fewer teachers meant increased class sizes, but it also enabled the district to raise remaining teachers» salaries in light of the massive project they were about to undertake.

The district's most recent offer to the teachers was a five percent pay increase, retroactive to July 1 of last year, with an increase of the minimum salary to $ 50,000 from $ 45,637 and $ 13 million to help reduce class size.

Such as, «In (insert your local school district) Prop. 30 funds have allowed us to (insert what you've been able to do with the funding like negotiate for smaller class sizes, rehired XX teachers and counselors, restored salary cuts with an increase of XX %, reinstated music, P.E. and art, etc.).»

Changing some conditions, such as teachers» classroom autonomy and faculty member's schoolwide influence, appears to be less costly than increasing teachers» salaries, professional development, or class - size reduction — an important consideration, especially in low - income settings and in periods of budgetary constraint.

This, was recently added to another slew of legislative actions in his state of North Carolina including, but not limited to, another year without pay increases (making this the 5th year without increases), no more tenure, no more salary increases for earning master's / doctoral degrees, and no more class - size caps.

The majority of both newbies and veterans agree that class sizes should not be increased, even if doing so would provide districts with more funding to raising salaries.

While you are working, investment income earned outside an RRSP would be taxed at increasingly higher marginal rates as your salary rises (hopefully), and also the size of a taxable portfolio increases.

In the last several years, pretty much every survey out there — including CLOC's own 2018 State of Corporate Law Departments survey (with Thomson Reuters and Acritas)-- has shown a pretty dramatic increase in law department hiring, salaries, and size of department relative to the size of the company for the last several years.

Our Hays Ireland Salary & Recruiting Trends 2018 guide surveyed over 1,700 employers and employees from organisations of all sizes throughout Ireland, and found that the vast majority of employers expect activity levels to increase or stay the same over the next year.