Sentences with phrase «teachers receive no pay raises»

Teacher morale has plummeted as they have seen instructional supplies cut to the bone, 4,000 teacher assistant positions eliminated from classrooms across the state, and yet another year in which teachers receive no pay raises.

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Supply teachers raised concerns that whilst schools are paying agencies hundreds of pounds a time to cover individual classes, teachers receive only a small fraction of the fees being paid to supply agencies.

It marks the biggest raises the teachers have received in a decade, and makes them among the highest paid teachers in the region.

Some locales have diluted the merit pay concept by making the bonuses to teachers small and setting the bar for receiving the bonuses low, thereby converting merit pay into something approximating an across - the board pay raise.

If teachers are not paid fairly for their noncognitive skills, we would expect teachers who shift to private - sector jobs to receive significant raises.

Georgia teachers will receive a 3 percent pay raise and funding for the state's Quality Basic Education Act will be increased as a result of the legislature's adoption of the first major tax increase in 18 years.

With teachers» last pay raise dating back to early 2007, the union says a salary hike is long overdue, especially since last fall's voter - approved Prop. 30 increased the per - student funds the district receives from the state.

However, I am highly disappointed at the turn of events in which you announced that teachers would not receive pay raises.

«I would think most teachers feel positive about new teachers receiving more money... but couldn't pay raises have been more equitably distributed?»

Many of the increases in state aid since the end of the recession have so far paid for things like increased health care costs and raises for teachers, some of whom have not received raises for four years, Griffith said.

In Oklahoma, meanwhile, teachers who have not received a raise from the state in a decade have declared they will go on strike on April 2 if the Legislature does not act to increase their pay as well as overall education budgets.

But that doesn't include automatic pay raises most teachers will receive for their years of experience.

North Carolina's teachers have received only one pay raise since 2008 — a small one of 1.2 percent in 2010.

-- In one of the central disagreements of Emanuel's proposed reforms, the union says it preserved so - called «step and lane» pay increases for teachers, in which teachers receive raises for each year of service.

In what may be among the first of many lawsuits over the new evaluations — which have been adopted by multiple states — the Florida teachers union is challenging the state's use of test scores in decisions about which teachers are fired and which receive pay raises.

The staff and teachers are receiving a pay raise, with a 13 percent raise going to administrators and a 7.7 percent raise to teachers, Swayze said some teaching positions have been reclassified as administrators, thus providing more individuals with higher raises.

And the district last year raised the extra monthly pay that teachers receive if they are certified as bilingual instructors from $ 40 to $ 50.

While it made headlines for being the largest pay raise teachers received in any state that year, it also only was enough to bring the state's declining pay back to the same level it had been before Republicans took over the Legislature.