Sentences with phrase «teachers estimate spending»

On average, it says, teachers estimate spending 14 days preparing students for state - mandated exams, and 12 days for district - mandated exams, and eight in 10 teachers think their students spend too much time taking government - mandated tests.

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The average respondent estimated that their local school district spent $ 6,189 on each student and that a teacher in their state earned $ 36,063 annually.

Respondents who support increased school spending underestimated teacher salaries in their state by almost $ 15,000, while those who wanted to see school spending remain the same offered estimates that were $ 14,230 below the truth.

Raegen Miller, now vice president of research partnerships at Teach for America, has estimated the cost of substitute teachers at $ 4 billion annually, or about 1 % of total K - 12 spending.

Just as per pupil spending is much higher than people think, so is the average teacher paid much better than members of the public estimate.

Wyoming plaintiffs have returned to court six times and have so far doubled Wyoming's per - pupil spending, elevating it from $ 5,971 in 1996 — 97 to an estimated $ 12,422 for 2006 — 07 Beginning teacher salaries, for those with master's degrees, rose in constant dollars from $ 24,402 in 1997 to $ 32,451 in 2004, a 33 percent increase.

There's no ready estimate of how much districts spend for extracurriculars: Districts account differently for teachers» afterschool pay (it can be lumped in with merit pay, says Stephen Frank of Education Resource Strategies), whether they include team buses in the extracurricular budget, how much they depend on parents and booster clubs for field maintenance and stage - set construction, if and how much they charge students to participate, whether they use federal Title I funds for afterschool enrichment, and so on.

Following that question, teachers were asked to estimate average per pupil spending across the country.

Teachers surveyed in the 2015 Education Next poll estimated that their local school district spends a little more than $ 7,000 per student.

The Learning Counsel research institute has analyzed various estimates and concludes that total annual K — 12 spending on print resources (textbooks and other materials) in 2014 was $ 10.4 billion, while digital content and curriculum spending came to $ 1.8 billion at the district level and $ 4.8 billion at the school or teacher level.

[3] It's not for lack of spending to help teachers improve — TNTP estimated that large districts were spending more about $ 18,000 a year per teacher on professional development.

From the survey data we estimated that in 1994 teachers were spending an average of about 10.5 hours a year on test preparation activities such as giving practice tests and teaching test - taking strategies.

With an astronomical price tag of $ 150 million last year (and an estimated cumulative $ 1 billion spent over 12 years), almost no one can support wasting scarce resources on teachers who aren't teaching, many who haven't taught in years.

Based on these findings, TNTP estimates that the 50 largest U.S. school districts alone spend about $ 8 billion annually on teacher development, far more than was previously thought.

According to TNTP, it is estimated that districts spend an average of $ 18,000 per teacher on professional development, but teachers don't seem to be improving (especially as evidenced by stagnant student achievement results).

Alternatively, ask teachers to carefully and honestly estimate how much time they and their students spend on the new devices each week.

If we ever expect to meet the standards of Common Core, the time spent in review (estimated at 30 percent of the year in a survey of 3,000 teachers) must be captured for new content.

The national average salary for a teacher with five years of experience and a bachelor's degree was $ 39,700 in 2008, compared with $ 46,500 with a master's, according to the federal data... The nation spends an estimated $ 15 billion annually on salary bumps for teachers who earn master's degrees...

``... would lift the percentage of new teachers in high - poverty schools coming from the top third of their academic cohort from 14 percent today to 68 percent and would cost (at current teacher / student ratios) an estimated $ 30 billion a year, or about 5 percent of current K - 12 spending.»

An example: During my January visit, I spent some time watching Kaczorek, the aforementioned math teacher, figure out where one of his classes stood in relation to a unit involving estimates and the addition of multiple digits.

New York State charter schools in private facilities spent an estimated $ 118 million on rent and other facility costs during the 2013 - 14 school year — money that should have been available for teachers, guidance counselors, technology and other learning tools..

Some DCPS teachers have estimated their students spend more than 10 % of the school year taking mandatory tests.

University of Wisconsin - Madison professor Peter Goff estimates that Wisconsin schools spend between $ 4,000 and $ 9,000 to hire a teacher.57 And increased vacancies mean that districts may have to lower their standards in order to fill teaching slots.