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11 hours ago ago from GothamSchools » Newsroom
At the same time city schools are poised to suffer mid-year budget cuts, the Department of Education is awarding $12 million in pay raises over the next two years to non-union department employees, Chancellor Joel Klein announced this afternoon. Central office employees have gone two years without raises and are getting less than the city set aside for them. Under the original plan, they would have received two four percent pay raises ...
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Will Rochester s teachers be frozen out? No official word yet, but the district s educators are finding out the terms of their new contact this morning. (Probably in a hour or so if they haven t been briefed yet.) Rumors have been flying so far: some people have claimed that teacherswill still get steps and lanes but the salary schedule will freeze forthe first year, and slightly increase the second year, others have said teachers will ...
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This post is part of the Teachers Certification Map’s “lessons from the field”, a series of posts featuring passionate, inspiring educators from across the country discussing some of the lessons that they have learned over the years that would help young teachers as they embark on their careers. Lyndsey Martin, a teacher of 6 years, teaches high school social studies at Myrtle Beach High School, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. This ...
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17 hours ago ago from The Ord - By: Jacob Kern
Just in case you need some writing inspiration. Every year, English teachers from across the USA can submit their collections of actual analogies and metaphors found in high school essays. These excerpts are published each year to the amusement of teachers across the country. Here are last year’s winners: 1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master. 2. His thoughts tumbled ...
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Withholding of promised funds, fiscal uncertainty and now a lawsuit from embattled educators? It's not exactly The Most Wonderful Time of Year for school districts across the state of New York. Governor David Paterson's decision earlier this week to withhold some $146 million in state aid to schools -- part of a plan to put a total of $750 aid on hold to avoid insolvency for New York State -- came just as school administrators were ...
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By Ashby Jones Whither the 3L year? Ten years hence are we all going to look back and wonder why it used to look so much like the 1L year? Are we going to marvel at the fact that it ever existed at all? An article in the Washington Post Friday perhaps provides a bit of evidence that the answer to the first question at least is yes. While many schools have changed tweaked formula for the 2L and 3L years of law school, Washington & Lee ...
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