Here's what governors are doing to ease teacher shortages
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — As schools across the country struggle to find teachers to hire, more governors are pushing for pay increases, bonuses and other perks for the beleaguered profession
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HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — As schools across the country struggle to find teachers to hire, more governors are pushing for pay increases, bonuses and other perks for the beleaguered profession
Iredell Health is increasing pay for most of its 1,800-person workforce over the next few months.
A revised offer was made in February to the Fire Brigades Union of a 7% pay rise backdated to last July and a further 5% from July this year.
Despite ongoing debates over the adequacy of teacher compensation, the design of merit pay systems, and the structure of pension benefits, there is broad agreement that teacher pay should be designed to recruit—and retain—the highest-quality teachers in a cost-effective manner.
We won't have these _ inflation—busting pay increases. but it does depend on the government having the will to, _ you know, override temporary unpopularity on this. - as inflation declines, the pressures themselves, the immediate pressures that are so acute that make people prepared to take strike action, will decline as well. people adjust again... ..to making their already declined wages stretch, because it's that much easier to make it stretch when inflation isn't as high as it is at the moment. hello.