Sentences with phrase «teacher assistant positions senate»

Senate proposes cutting more than 8,500 * teacher assistant positions Senate leaders unveiled portions of a 2015 - 17 budget proposal Monday that gives teachers an average four percent pay raise and lowers class sizes in the early grades — but much...

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House lawmakers came back to the Senate proposal by asking for more flexibility for school districts, allowing them to choose between giving teachers a full 8 percent raise or using some of that money to preserve teacher assistant positions.

The Senate initially proposed laying off all teacher assistants in the second and third grades in order to pay for hefty teacher pay raises — but after intense negotiations, they backed off their proposal though the final budget resulted in a reduction of teacher assistant positions varying from district to district.

Presumably, this means the teacher assistant funding fix is dead too, unless the Senate budges on their position during the waning hours of the 2014 legislative session.