Sentences with phrase «teacher bonuses of»

The best known was the 1999 Certificated Staff Incentive Program which awarded $ 100 million in teacher bonuses of up to $ 25,000 each for teachers in underperforming schools whose student performance improved beyond minimum growth targets.

Kornegay's plan is to use that money to give all teachers bonuses of $ 350 or $ 500.

The district now sets aside $ 1.6 million to pay teachers bonuses of $ 1,000 to $ 3,000 to work in the poorest schools.

Not exact matches

Last year, to help close this gap, the New York City Department of Education announced signing and retention bonuses for Pre-K For All teachers working outside public schools.

The music teachers of elementary schools deserve a Christmas bonus, in my opinion.

I suspect our teacher unions would not be adverse to let some portion of their member teachers compensation be based on a test score bonus rather than the meddling of school boards.

Even if you think the teacher (or the coach, or the boss, etc.) is wrong, let your child know that regardless of how they feel, they still need to find a way to act appropriately.One added bonus of this approach?

Cuomo said he wants to offer bonuses of up to $ 20,000 for teachers who receive top marks on their evaluations.

«The key education reforms are dealing with the epidemic of failing schools, improvement to the teacher evaluation system, tenure reform, teacher performance bonuses and scholarships to attract new teachers.

It collated results from a five - year study and a two - year study of 159 middle schools in Texas and found no statistically significant improvement in scores for English, maths, science or social studies, despite a # 3,000 bonus being offered to successful teachers.

Gov. Cuomo made a dramatic proposal in his State of the State speech Wednesday to offer bonuses of up to $ 20,000 for teachers who receive top marks on their evaluations.

De Blasio has taken some steps to address the pay disparities, including creating signing and retention bonuses for CBO teachers and using $ 17 million of the pre-K budget to address some salary inequities.

Both proposals are more than Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan of a $ 1.1 billion spending hike for education aid, with much of that money tied to approving the governor's policy proposals, including bonus pay for high - performing teachers and a strengthening of charter schools.

«Mayor Michael Bloomberg has proposed a bonus for new teachers to help pay off their student loans and $ 20,000 extra pay for those doing a good job and voters agree with both ideas,» Maurice Carroll, director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, said in a statement.

But the poll also found overwhelming support for many of Bloomberg's latest initiatives, including his proposals to make it easier to fire bad apples while offering a $ 20,000 bump in salary for the best teachers and a $ 25,000 bonus to help educators pay off student loans.

Under the plan, those teachers rated as «highly effective» would be eligible for bonuses of up to $ 20,000.

Over the course of negotiations, the district has proposed giving teachers a 10 percent raise and a bonus to make up for the time working under an expired agreement.

As an incentive, the district is offering a cash bonus of 35 percent of a year's pay to encourage teachers with at least 10 years on the job to retire.

Timothy Kremer, executive director of the New York State School Boards Association, said he welcomes the governor's prekindergarten proposal, his technology initiative and the bonuses for highly effective teachers.

Transforming failing schools, reforming tenure, expediting removal of underperforming teachers, providing performance bonuses, adding wraparound services to create Community Schools and reducing testing, are all reforms that have the potential to dramatically improve our system.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo called for bonuses of $ 20,000 for teachers rated «highly effective» on their performance evaluations during his State of the State speech today.

The Obama Administration wants to give a $ 20,000 salary bonus to thousands of the best elementary and secondary school science and math teachers in the country.

When neither of those pan out as planned, Elizabeth hatches a scheme to steal an advance copy of the state's standardized test to earn the incentive bonus her school awards to the teacher with the highest scores.

After the proposition passed, state union representatives immediately lobbied the state attorney general to issue a «clarification» explaining that performance pay actually meant an across - the - board bonus for every teacher in a school or district, regardless of performance, and that funding classrooms directly actually meant passing the funding through the district first so the district, rather than the school, can make the major funding decisions.

And a Mathematica study is due out soon studying the impact on student achievement when high value - added teachers were offered bonuses to move and randomly assigned among a set of schools that had volunteered to hire them.

This year we are implementing a new performance - management framework for teachers that will provide them with comprehensive data on areas of strength and areas that need development, as well as reward high - performing teachers with bonuses as large as $ 14,000.

About 49 percent of students attend a charter school that has a system of bonuses for successful teachers, and 17 percent of students attend a charter school whose teachers are unionized.

Improvement Plan: That proposal calls for cash bonuses of up to $ 15,000 to science and mathematics teachers, Advanced Placement teachers, and the top third of a school's most successful teachers as judged mostly by a combination...

New York City, with the nation's largest public school system, is also using incentives for educators, mostly in the form of bonuses for principals and teachers.

As an added bonus, blogging addresses many of the Common Core literacy standards that most teachers now need to address.

This study leaves open the question of whether a bonus program that rewards teachers for their own specific effectiveness would be more successful.

Teachers received bonuses based on the overall performance of all tested students in their school, rather than just on the performance of students in their own classrooms.

If a school won a bonus, money was distributed among teachers and other school personnel by a committee consisting of two administrators and two teachers union representatives at the school.

Teachers on the cusp of dismissal under the IMPACT evaluation system in the nation's capital improved their performance by statistically significant margins, as did those on the cusp of winning a large financial bonus, according to the study, published as a working paper last week by the Cambridge, Mass. - based National Bureau of Economic Research.

It turns out that the effectiveness of school - wide bonus programs may, in fact, depend on the number of teachers with tested students in a school (see Figure 1).

The bonus program was the product of lengthy negotiations between district administrators and the teachers union.

The New York City bonus - pay program provides us with a valuable opportunity to study the effect of merit pay for teachers in an experimental setting.

For a sense of the strength of the incentive provided by the bonuses, the full $ 3,000 award represents a 7 percent increase in the salary of teachers at the bottom of the pay scale and a 3 percent increase for the most experienced teachers.

And if older teachers opt to enter the ProComp program, they keep their old base salary; the ProComp program merely offers them a chance for bonuses on top of that old salary.

Principals» base pay should be at least 150 percent of what their schools» highest - paid teacher receives, with the possibility of an additional 50 percent in performance - related bonuses.

We could have given the best 25 percent of America's teachers a one - time bonus north of $ 100,000?

Unlike other careers where sales quotas, bonuses, and title enhancements can remind employees of the quality of the work, teachers, especially those working in more demanding areas like special education or alternative education, often feel frustrated and unappreciated.

«From the perspective of a teacher's union,» says Weissmann, «it's easy to see how this would make the [merit pay] concept even more unpalatable — who wants to subject themselves to the stress of seeing their bonus stripped away?»

The third group is where the psychology came in: The teachers were given a bonus of $ 4,000 upfront — but it had a catch.

But Chester, earlier in his career and after working as a teacher, completed his doctoral work at HGSE, and at the time of his appointment, considered it an «added bonus» that he was able to return to the state where he completed his dissertation work.

Amrein and Berliner identified 28 states where test scores are used to determine various consequences, such as bonuses for teachers, the promotion of students, or allowing children to transfer out of a failing school.

Thus we expect part of the bonus to be based on individual teacher results.

In the three years that we have been using the TAP system, we have found that the school - wide rewards part of the bonus encourages teachers to work together to make everyone more effective.

The State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio, one of the nation's largest pension programs for teachers, didn't make enough return on its investments in the last fiscal year to provide the bonus, said Herb Dyer, the fund's executive dTeachers Retirement System of Ohio, one of the nation's largest pension programs for teachers, didn't make enough return on its investments in the last fiscal year to provide the bonus, said Herb Dyer, the fund's executive dteachers, didn't make enough return on its investments in the last fiscal year to provide the bonus, said Herb Dyer, the fund's executive director.

All teachers who reach certain goals get a bonus; but 50 percent of that bonus is awarded for teaching skills (a classroom - based evaluation) that are not tied to student outcomes and 50 percent for student achievement gains that are not part of the teaching skills evaluation.