Sentences with phrase «teaching staff cuts»

While teaching staff cuts are currently less significant in primary schools, 21 per cent of survey respondents reported that they have had to reduce teaching staff.

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The Education Department's list of teacher layoffs would cut as much as 70 percent of teaching staff at some schools.

These cuts — along with reductions being implemented around the state because of the new, horrific tax cap — are resulting in a new round of program cuts as well as reductions in teaching staff and support personnel.

Then the prison service overcrowds prisons and cuts officer numbers, making it impossible for those staff that do remain to deliver decent teaching.

To underscore the urgency, the city's Department of Education released a list Sunday night outlining the potential impact of the cuts school - by - school if the policy was not repealed, with some schools losing as much as 70 percent of their teaching staff.

As federal sequestration and other disruptions of government funding have forced academic labs to cut their staffs, some junior scientists are reportedly turning to adjunct teaching to pay their bills.

• In News & Analysis, Yudhijit Bhattacharjee wrote about troubles at the Lick Observatory near San Jose, and other California observatory facilities, after a decision by the University of California's (UC's) Office of the President to cut off funding for the salaries of 11 faculty and staff members at the University of California Observatories system who are perceived by some to enjoy privileged status, with a lighter teaching load than other UC scientists and an 11 - month contract instead of the 9 - month contracts of other UC faculty.

Teach for America has announced that it will cut 15 percent of its national staff and give more independence to its regional offices, Emma Brown reports in the Washington Post.

Ideas to save money include shortening the school day as they can not afford to pay staff to teach lessons for a whole week, and other proposals include cutting teaching and support jobs and increasing class sizes while reducing the curriculum.

Teaching assistants are putting in nearly four hours of unpaid overtime each week, and with increasing cuts in school support staff numbers, the situation can only get worse.»

In addition to this, almost two - thirds (65 per cent) of the secondary school heads polled said that their school had cut back on teaching staff to save money.

Twenty - one per cent of primary school heads reported that their school had got rid of teaching staff, and over half (54 per cent) said their teaching assistants had been cut.

Four - fifths (80 per cent) also said they had cut back on either teaching staff or teaching assistants and 50 per cent said they had cut both.

The intervention comes two days after the Department for Education minister, Lord Agnew, said that no MAT boss should receive a larger pay increase than their teaching staff and that CEOs should have their pay cut if there is a downturn in the performance of their schools.

The public sector union believes that worsening behaviour in school is a direct result of cuts to staff and resources, which has left teaching assistants to face a barrage of violent behaviour, threats and abuse.

A further 74 per cent of teaching staff claim they have already heard head teachers express concern over funding, while 59 per cent are implementing or due to introduce bigger class sizes to accommodate funding cuts.

The latest School Cuts research — drawn solely from government figures — shows that staff numbers in secondary schools have fallen by 15,000 between 2014/15 and 2016/17 despite having 31,000 more pupils to teach.

Over 70 per cent of secondary school leaders say that their schools has had to cut teachers over the last year, with a similar proportion saying the same about teaching assistants or support staff.

Staff cuts are lower, but also on the rise in primary schools with 60 per cent cutting teaching assistants and 24 per cent classroom teachers.

School support staff such as teaching assistants and school administrators are working overtime as a result of increasing workloads and cuts to school staff, new research shows.

Districts are investing most extra funding now to replenish teaching ranks cut during recent hard times and add strategic staff, without controversy.

Four - fifths (80 %) said they had cut back on either teaching staff or teaching assistants and 50 % said they had cut both.

Shortages in many fields and locations across the state have been provoked by a steep decline in candidates preparing to teach, coupled with an increase in demand fueled largely by teacher attrition and schools» reinstatement of previously cut staff positions.

While primary school heads were much less likely to report that their school had got rid of teaching staff (21 %), over half (54 %) still said their teaching assistants had been cut and over a quarter (29 %) said their support staff had been cut back.

Teaching assistants, school administrators and other support staff are having to work overtime to cope with the increasing workload as schools cut staffing to cope with budget cuts, according to a Nat...

Teaching assistants, school librarians and lab technicians are facing a soaring workload as staff are cut and they are increasingly being expected to teach, according to a National Education Union (NE...

Teaching assistants, school administrators and other support staff are having to work overtime to cope with the increasing workload as schools cut staffing to cope with budget cuts, according to a National Education Union survey released today by the ATL section of the union at its annual conference in Liverpool.

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Teaching assistants, school librarians and lab technicians are facing a soaring workload as staff are cut and they are increasingly being expected to teach, according to a National Education Union (NEU) survey of over 1,700 support staff members.

In order to bridge this gap, the district reduced staff by cutting 15 teaching positions by qualification instead of seniority.

Staff cuts were lower at primaries, where 24 per cent of leaders said they had cut back on teachers, though 60 per cent said teaching assistants had fallen foul of funding shortages.

The cuts, he said, have had an impact on everything from class size to course offerings, and they've affected everyone from teaching assistants to central office staff, including the director of transportation in Tyrrell County Public Schools.

It comes despite headteachers recently revealing how they are having to cut back on textbooks, cleaning and maintenance to balance the books, on top of making teaching and support staff redundant.

Real terms cuts to school funding since 2015 have led to a big reduction in the number of secondary teachers, teaching assistants and support staff in England, says research published today by the Sch...

Over half of respondents reported that teaching posts had been cut, with 80 % reporting teaching assistant posts and 60 % reporting other support staff posts being cut.

School leaders say that their budgets can not stretch to the level of rising costs and have warned of having to cut teaching staff or reduce school hours.

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Governor Signs CTA Bill to Help Laid - off Educators Retrain for Hard - to - Staff Fields CTA Blog: Teachers laid off because of California's bruising education funding cuts will be able to collect unemployment benefits while retraining to fill other teaching positions in California's shortage fields because of Gov. Jerry Brown's signing of a CTA - backed bill.

«I have made cuts in every single area apart from teaching staff and we're not prepared to reduce staffing hours to provide free school lunches.»

During the entire time I was involved with discussions about cuts at staff meetings and informal discussions around the lunch room, not once had I heard any teacher or staff member desiring the cutting the Art, Music, PE, or Science teaching positions.

They asked their local MPs how they should cut spending, whether they should lay off teaching staff, reduce school hours or close counselling services.

If the Government doesn't increase overall funding for schools they can't recruit enough trained teachers, class sizes will rise, schools will reluctantly have to cut subject choices, they lack IT and teaching resources, can't provide training for staff and struggle to keep school buildings safely maintained.

Children with special educational needs and disabilities rely heavily on teaching assistants, so sadly they'll be suffering the most as a result of these devastating staff cuts.

Jon Richards, Head of Education at UNISON, said: «Job cuts are disproportionately affecting teaching assistants and support staff in schools across England.

Staff cuts are lower, but also on the rise in primary schools with 60 % cutting teaching assistants and 24 % classroom teachers.

The teaching staff will be associate members of Birmingham University, giving them access to cutting edge teaching and subject pedagogy, as well as access to the library, lectures and sports facilities.

Now cuts will go to the bone — the teaching staff, he says.

It is resulting in cuts to the curriculum, increased class sizes and fewer teaching and school support staff.

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Other options in the administration category include cutting up to 11 positions in the Teaching and Learning division; reducing clerical support in student services; reducing classified staff in community relations and the business office; and suspending the mentor - teacher program.