Sen. Bruce Dammeier, a Republican from Puyallup who has worked on several plans to address
the teacher salary issue this year, said he too thinks the best course of action right now is to designate a small committee of lawmakers to work on the problem.
Not exact matches
Suswam, while addressing some members of the Nigeria Union of
Teachers (NUT) in the area, defended his government, saying that the non-payment of workers»
salaries was a global
issue and not peculiar to Benue state.
By making
teacher seniority an
issue the mayor would be able to control which
teachers get to teach and rid himself of senior
teachers who are due raltively high
salaries and expensive benefits.
The contract talks have been particularly tense in recent weeks as the two sides attempted to find common ground on the key
issues of
teacher salaries, work rules and health insurance.
The chief obstacle to resolving these
issues has been the difficulty of separating the effects of
teachers»
salary levels from their working conditions and preferences.
We observe a similar difference on the
issue of
teacher salaries.
At
issue in the dispute were critical
issues like
teacher salaries, working conditions, and
teacher evaluations.
As for the NEA's position, Beck said changing a
salary structure is a difficult
issue for
teachers to discuss and on which to reach agreement.
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Needless to say,
salary increases for
teachers is hardly an
issue among
teachers themselves.
As
teacher effectiveness has become an increasingly visible policy
issue, standard approaches to
salary and tenure decisions are undergoing substantial change.
Teachers»
salaries are being «outstripped by inflation and pay rises in the private sector», which is contributing to recruitment
issues is the sector, the Association of
Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) has warned.
In 2012, the Center for American Progress
issued its «Unequal Education» report, which analyzed the first wave of DOE per - school expenditure data that included actual
teacher salaries.
Getting better - qualified
teachers into California's classrooms will require improved
teacher education, higher
salaries for public school
teachers and administrators, and elimination of emergency permits over the next five years, a state panel argues in a report
issued last week.
To understand how public opinions shift, Howell and West embedded a series of experiments within the Education Next / PEPG survey by dividing respondents into randomly chosen groups: some were simply asked their opinion about school spending and
teacher salaries, while others were first provided with accurate information about each of these
issues.
To address this
issue and make teaching in the U.S. more attractive, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has called for
teacher salaries that start at $ 60,000 and eventually rise to $ 150,000 — far higher than current
teacher pay in nearly all U.S. school districts.
While the
teachers union came up with the idea for the 10 - year contract, Thompson said the union compromised on key
issues such as keeping an unpopular two - tiered pay schedule designed to pay new hires at lower
salaries.
'» Prominently featured throughout the article are the United
Teachers of Los Angeles and its president, Alex Caputo - Pearl, who claims that collective bargaining is «an important tool available to fight for equity and justice» and should go beyond
issues like
salaries and work rules.
The union has accused the district of «refusing to bargain in good faith» on that and other
issues despite, as the union asserts in its statement, LA Unified ranking last among 47 school districts in LA County in maximum
teacher salary.
The goal of this
issue brief was to learn more about the
salaries of mid - and late - career
teachers and see if wages were high enough to attract and keep the nation's most talented individuals.
At
issue are demands around class size in LA schools,
teacher salaries and students» access to vital resources such as counselors, nurses and librarians.
Though low
salaries are among the things
teachers who quickly leave the profession cite as an
issue — as well as inadequate administrative support, isolated working conditions and poor student discipline — On the Path to Equity recommends a comprehensive induction program to help support new
teachers and possibly curb turnover rates.
The Park City School District last year brought in nearly 40 new employees and adjusted
teacher salaries with an across - the - board increase of $ 7,000, resulting in a budget spike of about $ 3.4 million for this year, which was discussed at Tuesday's school board meeting, along with master planning and potential bond
issues.
In public schools we spend over a third of our budget on
teacher salaries, yet we tend to view
teacher compensation as a separate
issue from raising student achievement.
Why is the union never there when Capital Prep
teachers reach out for help with
issues like
salary?
They address
issues such as school start times,
teacher salaries and drug testing in schools.
Madison
teachers went on strike in 1976 over disagreements with the administration on
salaries, class sizes and other
issues.
Salary issues will never go away because of false perceptions of what
teachers do, so
teacher organizations also need to step up and advocate for their own cause.
Pre-Retroactive Pay Raises: How New York City
teachers»
salaries have grown since their union contract expired in 2009, E.J. McMahon,
Issue Brief No. 26, January 2014.
In Illinois, opponents successfully pushed laws to make it harder for
teachers to bargain or strike over
issues beyond
salary, then framed
teachers as greedy.
Compounding these
issues, SAISD's low tax base has caused it to lose some of its highest performing
teachers to districts with higher
salaries.
He also noted that Montgomery's starting
teacher salaries lag behind several Washington - area jurisdictions, which he said could be an
issue as the school district prepares to hire a large number of
teachers.
However,
salary issues have caused contention in recent years between
teachers» unions and public watchdog groups.
He has studied extensively the impact of vouchers and charter schools on educational quality, and has recently focused on differences in
teacher preparation and
teacher salaries across countries as well as larger
issues of the impact of economic inequality on educational quality.
If there is something in the general population of
teachers about a lack of «differentiated pay» in the uniform
salary schedule i have not heard of it, nor has it come up as a major
issue in any bargaining unit I have heard of (and I hear about a number).
Now that the
teachers have a new contract that sets
salaries higher than before, they are turning to other priorities, a list of
issues that includes the threat of union dilution through an increase in the number of non-unionized charter schools.
The story, «Report:
Salaries just «part of the solution» for Utah's
teacher shortage» looks at Utah's
teacher shortage
issue and steps that schools and districts can do better recruit
teachers.
[4] While a myriad of factors influence these two
issues such as student characteristics, locale, school performance,
salaries, class sizes, evaluation systems, and school accountability systems, recent research has found that principals have a profound effect on
teacher retention.
The plan, which addresses the
issue over a span of time (building upon each
teacher's
salary year by year) may not be as effective as plans in other states, like Iowa.
It's also an
issue that played out in a
salary arms race throughout Utah's more populated school districts as schools eyed to pay
teachers more.