Last night the Cleveland school board unanimously agreed to what city and union officials are hailing as a groundbreaking teacher contract for Ohio. Union members will vote later this month. The contract spells out a new basis for teacher pay hikes. Raises merely for lasting another year in the job are out; so are automatic [...]
The managers of Ohio’s state teacher pension fund made nearly $4 million in bonuses last year.
Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee made $1.9 million last year, making him the best-paid public-college president in the country. His peers in Ohio’s private colleges and universities don’t come close to that standing. The Chronicle of Higher Education’s annual survey of private-college president compensation released this week ranks Case Western Reserve University President Barbara [...]
A recent issue of School Administrator magazine offers tips for school superintendents negotiating their employment contracts. They include: Compensation If the board will agree only to an annual base salary below the market rate because of public perception, the board may be willing to put money in a tax-sheltered annuity. Benefits Request the board pay [...]
A new report from the Center for American Progress argues that teachers with master’s degrees do not do a better job educating their students than their peers without advanced degrees. The report goes on to say that states waste money by giving salary increases to teachers as a reward for getting a master’s degree, spending nearly $15 billion [...]
Eyton Z / Flickr A new plan being pitched to legislators to ensure Ohio’s teacher pension system can meet its obligations would save the State Teachers Retirement System about $13.3 billion in future pension costs and other accrued liabilities. But it would also have teachers “paying more and getting less,” the Columbus Dispatch reports. The plan approved [...]
Changing Gears reporter Dan Bobkoff wanted to know “what it’s like to be a teacher today.” So he sat down and talked with three generations: One teacher near retirement, a teacher in the middle of her career and a college freshman who had both of the others as teachers and is now thinking of becoming [...]
The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports that one of the issues at stake in negotiating a new contract for Cleveland teachers is performance pay: Negotiation documents obtained by The Plain Dealer show that the district continued to press for merit pay. Those documents from the State Employment Relations Board (SERB) also show that the district, as [...]
National data shows that on average teachers work fewer hours per week than people in other professions–nearly three hours a week less. That’s according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
As part of our ongoing reporting on all aspects of education in Ohio, StateImpact took a look at how average teacher salaries have changed over the past five years. Looking at all Ohio public-school teachers, the average salary increased about 12 percent, reaching $56,715 for the 2010-11 school year. Districts with the largest increases in [...]
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