Sentences with phrase «wealthy districts pay»

They just rejected the most common way wealthy districts pay it.

Even wealthier districts paying higher salaries can not easily find math, science, special education and bilingual teachers, who are in especially scarce supply.

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Sen. Liz Krueger, whose Upper East Side Senate district is one of the wealthiest in New York, has teamed up with Democratic donor / New Roosevelt Initiative founder Bill Samuels to propose using cash generated by the proposed casino expansion to pay for a publicly - funded campaign system.

«People who are driving into the central business district of Manhattan are pretty uniformly a lot wealthier than people taking public transit, so the folks who would have to potentially change behavior or who would pay a toll are the kind of folks who are already making quite a bit of money anyway, so it's equitable to make sure there's a toll in place,» said Sifuentes.

They use less than one - third the amount of water used by residents of wealthier districts, but pay four or five times as much for the water.

Teachers in the wealthier districts get better technology training, better professional development, and higher pay.

Despite the disproportionate concentration of PTA donations in affluent schools, we found that few of the districts with the 50 richest PTAs have policies in place to respond to outsized donations to the wealthiest schools.30 A couple of districts place restrictions on how parent - raised funds can be spent, such as banning their use to pay for school staff.

They have already voted no to across the board teacher salary increases and continued the freeze on teachers» salaries that has been in place for 5 years (at the same time passed a tax break for the wealthy, and now, with reduced revenue can not give raises), increased class size, taken away additional pay for Masters degrees, eliminated most of the state's teacher assistants, gone after tenure and offered the top 25 % of the teachers in a district $ 500 to give up their tenure immediately, increased the number of charter schools (many funded by Republicans in the private school business) and finally, the most recent scheme pondered is to let kids go to any school in the state regardless of their home county.

One result has been wealthier districts having a greater ability to offer compensation packages that include regular bonuses or paying moving expenses to teachers licensed in hard - to - fill subject areas, regardless of their experience or education level.

The result has been wealthier districts having a greater ability to offer compensation packages that include regular bonuses or paying moving expenses to teachers licensed in hard - to - fill subject areas, regardless of their experience or education level.

According to Baron's analysis of Biasi's findings, the limited positive impact of individual pay schedules in some districts appears to come at the expense of overall student performance, with wealthier districts hiring experienced teachers away from poorer districts.

Some property - wealthy districts are also gaming the system by purchasing things that are typically paid for with M&O revenue - such as furniture, buses and computers - with I&S revenue.

But he says concerns about worsening pay gaps between wealthy and poor counties may be well - founded, even if states adopt a similar approach to lawmakers in Tennessee and several other southern states, which implemented minimum pay requirements for districts.