Yet, for many years, in community after community,
teacher salary talks often ended up focusing on ways to adjust that system.
Not exact matches
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 dark horse candidate
talks with Alan about his ideas for demilitarizing the National Guard, raising
teacher's
salaries and making public transit and public colleges free.
Usually when I tell this story I'm
talking about pensions, but rising attrition rates also have implications for the way we think about
teacher preparation, induction,
salaries, etc..
The
teachers then walked out anyway, on behalf of an agenda that included, depending on who was
talking, more funds for textbooks, non-teaching staff, and
salaries; changes in Oklahoma's capital gains tax rate; other changes in the tax code; new hires at the State Department of Education, and more.
An award - winning history
teacher in Trenton
talks about «ghost -
salaries, phantom -
salaries,
salaries for people who did not exist» on the budget.
Only in recent years has the
salary -
talk climate been more conducive to discussions of alternative pay structures, structures that often involve compensating
teachers not just for how long they have been teaching, but how well.
There is some discussion within the profession and some provisional use of distinctions among
teachers along a qualitative spectrum - with corresponding
salary differentials - as there is among lawyers and doctors, but the
talk is still mainly just
talk.
I've given these
talks where I've had superintendents say, «Well, look Dr. Ingersoll, we like employee turnover because we can hire more beginning
teachers at a lower
salary.
Lawmakers continued to face an impasse in budget
talks this week by fighting over whether to ditch
teacher assistants in the state's elementary classrooms as a way to pay for
teacher salary increases.
TURNER: Clearly MC Hammer was not
talking about
teacher salaries.
Raise your tip jar But how to get your loved ones to
talk teacher salary turkey?
Oakland
teachers Danielle Justesen, Miya Partido and Kei Swensen, from left, demonstrate in the middle of Broadway at 51st Street in Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014, after the school district reduced a
salary offer and rejected a request for lower class sizes during contract
talks.