That's why during the campaign we talked about different ways to pay teachers.
By comparison most public schools get an amount per student and must pay teachers and all other costs from that money.
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An entrepreneur would pay teachers well who inspire students to learn.
Because teachers' wages are low and absenteeism is often high, Ly and her organization also pay teachers additional stipends each month depending on the number of sessions they're teaching.
All this leaves investors to speculate about how much of their money they're likely to recover to pay teachers and collect the trash, how much toxic paper they own and what it is worth.
But when you ask how anti-reformers would change the system they suggest: we should pay teachers better, implement smaller class sizes, treat teachers like professionals by making the profession more exclusive, stop demonizing teachers, etc.
My plan would recruit an army of new teachers, pay those teachers better. (Applause.) I want to hire more teachers in areas like math and science.
Note that schools which operate under greater choice do not necessarily pay their teachers more (charter schools, for instance, pay less than average), but what they pay varies more with teacher quality.
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The Labour government's bid to introduce performance-related pay for teachers ended up with the supposed incentive turning into a hidden general pay rise.
He said that school inspectors had been told to challenge head teachers and governors to justify pay rises to teachers and to give a lower rating to schools that increase staff pay without good reason.
Higher pay for teachers at elite pre-schools filter down to upward wage pressure for teachers elsewhere.
No doubt the unions will continue to argue that performance pay sets teachers against each other, thereby sapping morale.
Their plans to slash education spending will mean that schools will simply not have the cash to pay good teachers more.
The introduction of performance-related pay for teachers is part of this trend.
In December, he called for the pay of teachers who worked to rule to be cut if they were in breach of contract.
"Of course, we eventually want to pay our teachers decent wages, " says Tang Xingsheng, who is in charge of the university's housing program.
Governors deducted 15% of the latest monthly pay of teachers taking part in the on-going industrial action because they believed it could damage pupils' education.
The companies would donate computer hardware and software and Internet access while the government foots the bill to wire the clubs and pay computer teachers.
Mr Willis also accused the government of failing to deliver on class sizes, holding back on performance related pay for teachers and proposing to centralise post-16 education.
Among their causes: charter schools, a push for merit pay for teachers, efforts to curb false eyewitness identification, and research to spur lawmakers to firm up government pension programs.
She also highlighted a report earlier this week which argued that the international evidence did not show any clear link between performance-related pay for teachers and pupils' test results.
Decisions about whether or not to fund vouchers, have merit pay for teachers or extend the school year should be made by parents and local school boards, not by D.
Most voters also placed a high priority on his proposals to lengthen the school day or year, to pay better teachers more money and to require a new competency exam for teachers.
Once a vocal proponent of No Child Left Behind, charter schools, vouchers, and merit pay for teachers, Ravitch decided sometime around 2006 that there was actually no evidence that any of those policies improved American education.
This damage would be done, Mr Blunkett claimed, "by abolishing the national curriculum, scrapping the literacy and numeracy strategies, ending assessments for seven year olds, abandoning performance-related pay for teachers and denying parents full details of school exam results".
Some states and districts are looking to adopt a system like the one in Hillsborough County Public Schools in Florida, where the district created exams for every subject at every grade five years ago in an effort to award merit pay to teachers.
The unions also oppose Tory plans to end central pay bargaining for teachers and to allow schools to pay according to merit.
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