Sentences with phrase «wanted raises for teachers»

If not told what the salaries were, 65 percent favored higher salaries, but if told the real numbers, only 41 percent wanted raises for teachers.

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It always stuns me when people say that they don't want to see teachers or nurses get raises because the good ones should be in it for the love of the work.

Bloomberg also wants the city to offer top teachers a $ 20,000 - a-year raise if they are rated highly for two consecutive years.

We want to get it done as soon as possible for all Buffalo teachers who are deserving of a raise,» Kuzma said.

You want so badly for your teacher and your classmates to know what you know, but the fear of embarrassment keeps you from raising your hand.

Saying he wants to thank Georgia's teachers for their hard work, Gov. Sonny Perdue has proposed giving them a 2 percent raise as part of his fiscal 2006 budget.

Morgan has written a letter to members of the Teacher and Head teacher Union Rountable saying that the Department for Education (DfE) wants to: continue to listen carefully to the arguments that unions are making; move forward in a constructive way and continue discussions on the issues the unions have raised with her; and have a conversation about a new series of talks to allow greater depth on certain topics (i.e. pay, conditions, workload and qualificaTeacher and Head teacher Union Rountable saying that the Department for Education (DfE) wants to: continue to listen carefully to the arguments that unions are making; move forward in a constructive way and continue discussions on the issues the unions have raised with her; and have a conversation about a new series of talks to allow greater depth on certain topics (i.e. pay, conditions, workload and qualificateacher Union Rountable saying that the Department for Education (DfE) wants to: continue to listen carefully to the arguments that unions are making; move forward in a constructive way and continue discussions on the issues the unions have raised with her; and have a conversation about a new series of talks to allow greater depth on certain topics (i.e. pay, conditions, workload and qualifications).

In a new poll out today, Americans say they want teacher preparation programs to raise the bar for entrance, provide longer training periods for practice teaching, and require new teachers to pass a rigorous certification exam akin to the ones required of lawyers and doctors.

Jenisha «Jay» Fair, Physical Education Teacher CLARK COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, NEVADA «I am involved because I want to use my voice — as a young educator — to advocate for my students [and] raise awareness about the importance of social justice in every classroom at every school,» says Jenisha «Jay» Fair of her involvement with the union.

Whenever the scrapping of a requirement for teacher qualification was raised, Laws was keen to reiterate that his party was not consulted and they did still want to see changes reversed.

Instead of slashing education to pay for teacher raises, Tillis wants to draw on increased revenues from the state's lottery — which has Democrats, and even some Republicans, concerned about the prospect of relying on a more volatile and unpredictable funding stream to pay for statutorily guaranteed expenses.

JACKSON — State senators want to end the election of local school superintendents, raise the requirements for becoming a teacher and limit the state's ability to take over schools in Mississippi.

For months now, Senate leaders have made it very clear that they want to give teachers pay raises.

This is happening as teachers across Oklahoma continue their walkout and after teachers in West Virginia got the raise they wanted by striking for more than a week.

He also wants raises for veteran teachers, who don't get any in the GOP legislative plan.

The Baltimore City school administrators who never raised a cent on their own and could never claim «I built that» even if it came to a teachers» lounge, recently wasted over $ 500,000 in public funds (that's taxpayer money) on expensive local hotel suites, lavish dinners and even wings at Hooters for students «because that was what they wanted,» and The Sun was so outraged by their indefensible waste of taxpayer money that it was called a «distraction» in an editorial.

And you'll see class sizes going up and up, because it's the unions - you know, vilify them if you want, as many do - but they're the ones who are standing in the way of the legislatures cutting the budgets and raising class sizes, and making it even worse for teachers.

They could choose if they want to keep money for teacher assistants or divert it for additional raises.

This week in #nced: 26 Districts and Counting Close As Teachers Rally for Public School Support; Gov. Roy Cooper Wants to Give Teachers and State Workers a Big Raise

If you want to reform the schools so that kids are held accountable, teachers aren't blamed for societal ills, schools get back to educating rather than feeding, clothing, and raising the students, the whole one size fits all mentality... then I'm with you.

So, synchronization is a great feature for the individual consumer / reader, but raises a special problem for teachers who want to load six copies of a book onto six different Kindles in their account for six different students to read.

«I wanted to see something different and good for these children,» says White, 56, a single teacher's aide whose aunt raised her.