Sentences with phrase «teacher pay raise»

And some states are now using these debts to justify not giving teachers a pay raise.
The deal offers teachers pay raises over the next five years, ranging from three to five percent.
Or rebuild the crumbling school infrastructure, create scholarships for the next generation of scientists and engineers, and finally give good teachers the pay raise they deserve.
The program will link teacher pay raises and performance reviews directly to student achievement, and even allows a teacher with chronically low - performing students to be fired.
Lawmakers worked through the night to pass a state budget that gives teachers a pay raise and schools a funding bump.
Even so, Emanuel offered a small olive branch last week as he talked about the wide gap in the two sides» proposals for teacher pay raises.
An average teacher pay raise of 7 percent (that in and of itself a hotly contested figure) was coupled with what lawmakers said was a full preservation of teacher assistants» jobs.
«We've got a 2.2 percent increase in the general fund budget with no tax increase, with teacher pay raises, no elimination of teachers assistants and we've kept the integrity of our Medicaid, I'm proud of it,» he said.
Senate Republicans released a plan on Wednesday to provide what they call the «largest teacher pay raise in state history.»
Rodney Ellis, president of the state's teacher association, says the proposed teacher pay raises don't go far enough.
Pay increased again in 2015, and then in 2016 and 2017 the GOP - led Legislature approved two more budgets with larger teacher pay raises.
Cuomo says school spending and teachers pay raises contribute to the state's high property tax burden.
Signaling that schools will be a top priority during the upcoming legislative session, Ducey outlined plans for an education - heavy agenda, including statewide teacher pay raises, increased spending on all - day kindergarten, and a $ 1,000 signing bonus for new teachers who take jobs in low - income districts.
Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle has released state funds for the last round of public school teacher pay raises, even though random drug testing for instructors has not been implemented.
Locally, Nashville's acting mayor rejected the school district's budget request forcing the district to withdraw teacher pay raises.
«Gov. Cooper's hypocrisy knows no bounds — he vetoed an average 9.6 percent pay increase for teachers just last year and now claims he supports teacher pay raises,» Carver said.
The Senate plan also spends considerably less than the House proposal on teacher pay raises with the bulk of the new funding targeted toward early career teachers.
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.
Last year, the General Assembly passed what some characterized as a historic teacher pay raise.
Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis, who has objected to Emanuel's plans to withhold teacher pay raises and change work rules, issued a less - than - subtle statement about the mayor's decision.
In their fourth year in charge, in 2014, Republicans approved the state's first teacher pay raise since 2008.
Arizona's largest school district and some others will resume classes after lawmakers approved money for teacher pay raises and additional education funding.
A long line of teachers waited outside the office of Rep. Chris Malone (R - Wake), where a large poster was plastered to his window that said there's been an average teacher pay raise of 19 percent since 2013.
Cache and Washington districts are the latest to offer teachers pay raises.
His vision, outlined in a speech to a Little Rock civic group earlier this month, calls for raising academic standards by requiring more rigorous course requirements for graduation, linking teacher pay raises to student performance, and restructuring the state's accountability system to include annual spring testing.
Gov. Jim Justice signed legislation Wednesday giving teachers a pay raise, but educators said it wasn't enough and it didn't address other areas of concern like insurance and health care costs, so they went on strike.
In a release, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten made it clear that the teacher pay raise was only an opening bid, explaining, «Don't get us wrong; we appreciate the pay raise.
As Oklahoma lawmakers prepare for the start of the 2018 legislative session on Feb. 5, they'll be met with the familiar issues of filling an estimated $ 425 - million budget hole, giving teachers a pay raise, reducing prison overcrowding and maintaining the state's infrastructure.
How the teacher pay raise formula could worsen Seattle's inequity In this oped Marguerite Roza describes one critical issue underlying the fall 2015 Seattle Public Schools teachers» strike that neither the Seattle School District nor the Seattle Education Association, the teachers» union, took on: the built - in inequities across schools created...
In order to pay for the teacher pay raises, lawmakers enacted cuts to critical areas of education spending.
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.
Apparently, some teachers haven't forgotten that this is the same Bill Haslam who promised to make Tennessee the fastest improving state in the nation in teacher pay in October of 2013 and included a teacher pay raise in his 2014 budget address... only to break that promise in April.
Lawmakers worked through the night to pass a state budget that give teachers a pay raise and schools a funding bump.
The superintendents were encouraged by the prospect of a teacher pay raise as well as the Career Pathways plan that is contained in both the Governor's budget as well as the House plan.
What remains unclear is how the House will pay for the teacher pay raise — their budget relies heavily on increased lottery revenue thanks to doubling the lottery's advertising budget, but
What remains unclear is how the House will pay for the teacher pay raise — their budget relies heavily on increased lottery revenue thanks to doubling the lottery's advertising budget, but that proposal was put into question when it was revealed that their revenue projections for the lottery could be grossly overstated.
But House lawmakers fought back hard, with Speaker Thom Tillis (R - Mecklenberg) teaming up with Gov. McCrory to propose a teacher pay raise of 5 percent and keeping all TA jobs intact.
* UPDATED A second round of protests is scheduled at LA Unified schools today as the district and its teachers union, UTLA, continue to lock horns over teacher pay raises, among other issues.
As the state budget is finalized, some critics say they're skeptical of how the teacher pay raises will pan out.
For months now, Senate leaders have made it very clear that they want to give teachers pay raises.
Medicaid funding and teacher pay raises are expected to be the key sticking points in negotiations.
Responding in English, White said giving teachers guns was not necessary and that the state should instead give teachers a pay raise.
State lawmaker proposes a $ 10,000 teacher pay raise.
Coe, along with Senator Eli Bebout claim to have seen analyses that suggest there is no need for teacher pay raise, and that the state has been «keeping pace with inflation.
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