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Dallas teachers take pay raise demands to school board May 3, 2021 10:49 AM CDT By Stu Becker
Members of the Alliance/AFT at the 2019/20 Dallas ISD School Board meeting. | Stuart Becker / People s World
DALLAS Members of Alliance/AFT, the local American Federation of Teachers union in the Dallas Independent School District (ISD), took its demand for pay raises to the city’s school board on April 22. The union is demanding 7% pay raises for teachers and a 5% increase for support staff, along with a $1,000 bonus in January 2022.
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Pre-K 4 teacher Tiara Swift (pink shirt) helps students (from left) Alanna Ross, Taraji Thomas and Jaliyah Webb as they get ready to head to the cafeteria at N.W. Harllee Early Childhood Center in the Oak Cliff neighborhood of Dallas.(Lynda M. González / Staff Photographer)
By Eric Hale
As a child who was raised in an abusive home gripped by poverty, I am all too familiar with the feelings of shame, hunger, anger and despair.
We rightly spend a lot of time on this page praising Dallas ISD for important reforms and innovative programs that have given parents at every economic level greater confidence that their children can get the best possible education in our public school system.
Reforms like the pay-for-performance Teacher Excellence Initiative and programs that have seen school choice expanded throughout the district deserve that praise.
But the reality is that, even as DISD has been reinvigorated as a school system, most of its students largely poor and minority are not excelling academically. And far too many are underperforming. As we celebrate the successes for a relatively small number of students, we have to recognize that the district and all of us who support it still have a lot of work to do to bring those left behind up to speed.
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Dallas ISD is partnering with the University of North Texas Dallas in effort to recruit more males of color to teaching as a profession.
UNTD’s initiatives in this area includes the UNTD School of Education’s THRIVE (Teach Hope Respond Inspire Value and Empower), as well as a recent partnership with Call Me Mister, a 20-year-old national program started by Dr. Roy Jones at Clemson University. The mission of the Call Me MISTER® (acronym for Mentors Instructing Students Toward Effective Role Models) Initiative is to increase the pool of available teachers from a broader more diverse background.