"What do I tell the fellow parents when I am sitting in the PTA meetings?" asked Councilman Craig Rice, D-Germantown. "When I look at how long and how persistent this achievement gap has been, apparently what you've been doing hasn't helped."...
"I've had teachers say to me, 'I can't even get to students because there are so many students in the classroom,' " said Council President Nancy Navarro, D-Eastern County.But Starr disagreed that this change would result in the intended improvement. Rather than reduce class sizes, the school system tries to reduce student-teacher ratios by making sure there are more English as a Second Language and special education teachers.
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Thursday, April 25, 2013
Montgomery County lawmakers: Teacher raises won't narrow student achievement gap | WashingtonExaminer.com
Montgomery County lawmakers: Teacher raises won't narrow student achievement gap | WashingtonExaminer.com
There wasn't much in there about any pay raises.
ReplyDelete0.1 percent dedicated to achievement gap closure.
If all of it went into teacher salaries, you could expect, what... a 50-100 dollar raise per year?
This was a sloppy article.
That said, Starr says he wants to hire more special education teachers? Is that where extra pay comes in? But MCEA fights pay based on anything but seniority.
Laws of supply and demand be damned.
Instructional assistant budgets got slashed and that would be a big help to achievement gaps. Nothing like a little targeted one-on-one when a handful of kids don't understand a concept the first time around.
In 1998, IA's were the number one priority on principals in 12 out of 13 schools.
I wonder how much that's changed and which direction.