Sentences with phrase «teacher salary costs»

I did a back of the napkin analysis of one district and came to the conclusion they could pay EVERYONE top step and only increase teacher salary costs by about 13 %.

In other words, while an early retirement program reduces teacher salary costs, it still can cost the state money through higher pension payments.

As discussed above, though, previous research documents spending differences resulting from less intentional factors, primarily differences in teacher salary costs due to different levels of teacher experience.

In other words, even when an ERI program creates substantial savings for school districts by reducing teacher salary costs, it still can cost the state money through higher pension payments.

Not exact matches

New teachers in Chicago earn $ 50,000 per year, but given the high cost of living in the city, that salary means she's just getting by.

She added that there are hard costs which are out of the control of local school districts including teacher salaries, pensions and healthcare.

The average cost of cases that reach a decision was $ 174,902, which includes legal fees, staff salaries and benefits, salary and benefits for a substitute teacher, settlement costs (if any), and salary and benefits of the accused employee.

His auditors found $ 1,981,802 in unauthorized salaries and fringe benefits, $ 310,136 in undocumented consulting costs, and $ 173,539 in staff bonuses for teachers whose evaluations showed they did not deserve them.

Walcott claimed the vast majority of controllable costs at the Department of Education go to teachers» salaries.

Noting that «personnel costs are the major component of school district expenditures, and have been increasing at a rate above inflation for a number of years,» the Commission recommended a series of reforms to curb these expenses, including a modification of the Triborough Amendment to exclude salary steps and lanes for teachers.

«New York's cost is exceptionally high because... the state combines the nation's highest average teacher's salary and relatively high staffing levels (reflected in a well - below - average average pupil - teacher ratio),» the report notes.

He said per capita pension costs are now higher than salaries for uniformed workers and teachers and pension costs increased by $ 600 million this year «and it's getting worse.»

The increase would barely enable districts to maintain services, officials say, at a time when student needs and mandated costs for employee salaries, health care premiums and teacher retirements are on the rise.

They highlighted the remarkable achievements of the governor that have impacted positively on their lives such as «prompt payment of monthly salaries / pensions, other allowances to state public and civil servants; absorption of 54 % of total cost of 100 housing units at Elim Estate allocated to workers; payment of outstanding arrears of salaries / pensions / allowances to Local Government Staff, through prudent utilization of 100 % of LG share of the Paris Club Refunds; promotion of teachers and recruitment of over 4000 school teachers as well as elongation of terminal grade of qualified primary school teachers to level 16».

It is also for COST (don't get me started on teacher salaries!!)

In their research, Leslie Huling and Virginia Resta found: «If a bad hire costs a company nearly 2 times the employee's initial salary in recruitment and personnel costs as well as lost productivity, then each teacher who leaves the profession during the induction years likely costs taxpayers in excess of $ 50,000.»

Boosting the salaries of early - career science and maths teachers would be a better — and more cost - effective — way of addressing teacher shortages than ploughing resources into recruitment, new research suggests.

(Teacher salaries didn't appear in this year's QC, but in 2000 average teacher salaries, adjusted for the cost of living, were reported, though not counted as part of each state's «grade.&Teacher salaries didn't appear in this year's QC, but in 2000 average teacher salaries, adjusted for the cost of living, were reported, though not counted as part of each state's «grade.&teacher salaries, adjusted for the cost of living, were reported, though not counted as part of each state's «grade.»)

The cost of training and the loss of salary due to time spent out of the workforce can easily reduce a teacher's real compensation during her first five years by 25 percent or more.

Not surprisingly, these enhancements have come at a substantial cost: Combined contributions for teachers and districts increased from 16 to 29 percent of salary over this period.

When Cecilia Mendoza recently hired eight teachers for her school in Oakland, Calif., the principal had to consider something that most school leaders in the country rarely take into account: the cost of their salaries.

These respondents were told that «Individual student costs go toward teacher and administrator salaries, building construction and maintenance, extracurricular activities, transportation, etc.» With this prompt, we anticipated, respondents would have an easier time answering the question.

Teachers who receive unsatisfactory evaluations do not move up the salary ladder or even receive cost of living increases, Weil said.

Estimate the cost of these frantic last - minute arrangements at $ 20 per day per family, and the daily losses from the strike equal about $ 7 million per day or about $ 50 million for the strike period, which comes to about one - sixth of the salary gains that the teachers received.

The dual problem for superintendents is that most of their costs are in personnel salaries and benefits, and that most personnel are teachers.

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.

The state calculates the money associated with each teacher and instructional - support unit for every school based on four factors: the costs of teacher salaries, employee benefits, classroom support, and other current expenses.

Superintendent William A. Anton last week proposed shortening the school year from 180 to 163 days beginning next fall in an effort to save the district about $ 160 million in staff and teacher salaries and other costs.

In nearly every year over the past decade (and in every year we have asked the relevant questions), we have found much less enthusiasm for boosting per pupil expenditures and teacher salaries among those who are first told how much these items are actually costing the district.

Even if local personnel policies might partially buffer the impact on low - income children by re-assigning ineffective teachers and paying effective teachers to take their place, such salary incentives are expensive (with the costs being borne disproportionately by schools serving low - income children) and have been only partially effective where they have been tried.

For - profit voucher schools have lowered their costs by hiring part - time teachers (who are often teaching full - time in municipal schools), paying lower salaries, and enlarging class sizes.

It is of interest, then, that the American public tends to look favorably on a proposal that would require teachers «to pay from their salaries 20 percent of the cost of their health care and pension benefits, with the government covering the remainder.»

For example, experienced teachers could be guaranteed their current salaries, plus cost - of - living adjustments, rather than the original raises on the traditional schedule or the salary declines imposed by an evidence - based schedule.

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.

The costs of paying new teachers on the evidence - based schedule while keeping existing teachers on the traditional schedule would peak after 10 years, at which point savings associated with the flattened rewards for experience would begin to outweigh the costs of higher salaries to younger teachers.

Since the cost of replacing a teacher is estimated at 30 percent of salary and benefits, a high - quality mentoring program offers a far less expensive alternative.

The basic building blocks for calculating the cost per pupil of the various policies Picus and Odden propose are the approximate average expenditure of $ 7,800 per pupil and average teacher compensation (salary plus benefits) of $ 60,000 for the state of Washington.

Teachers will want back pay for salary increases, which would cost several billion dollars.

Given that K — 12 education is facing its own financial crisis and that teacher salaries have not risen along with tuition, rising costs for education degrees may make teaching a less attractive opportunity for talented individuals.

In Houston, as in so many urban districts, the accounting system pretends that every teacher earns the average salary of teachers in the district rather than accounting for the actual costs of the salaries at a particular school.

Class Size Reduction Question: Reducing average class sizes by 3 students would cost roughly the same amount as increasing teacher salaries by $ 10,000.

To attract outstanding students to the teaching profession, Trinity University in San Antonio has launched a forgivable - loan program that subsidizes both the education costs and the starting salaries of young teachers.

The plan would cost $ 213.6 million over the next five years and would completely revamp the state's standards and salary schedule for teachers, according to Rex G. Cheatham, education liaison for Gov. George C. Wallace.

The report says that K12 schools spend more on instructional costs but less on teacher salaries and benefits, and more on administration but less on administrator salaries and benefits.

Last week, Dave Eggers and Ninive Clements Calegari, founders, according to their official ID, of the 826 National tutoring centers and producers of the documentary «American Teacher,» wrote an essay for the New York Times titled The High Cost of Low Teacher Salaries.

Teacher Benefits Question: Some argue that teachers around the nation should be required to pay from their salaries 20 percent of the cost of their health care and pension benefits, with the government covering the remainder.

With the city of Philadelphia facing severe financial problems, a program that boosts salaries for some senior teachers in the city school district — at a cost totaling up to $ 16 million this school year — is raising some eyebrows.

Rising costs have led states and districts to scale back their spending on instructional costs, including on teacher salaries, and cut retirement benefits for new workers.

First, when expressed as a share of salaries, these costs are higher for public school teachers as compared to private sector professionals.

We recognised the need to give the control back to schools and help them find supply teachers without the substantial associated costs and, likewise, for supply teachers to find work without having to forgo large portions of their salary.