Claremont Colleges Digital Library / Flickr Ohio schools could hire more teachers if the education jobs part of President Barack Obama’s American Jobs Act goes forward. The bill includes $1.1 billion to pay teachers and first responders, allocated to states based on both total population and population of school-age children. All funds would need to [...]
In what she calls her “personal role”, Ohio teacher liaison and former Kasich campaign worker Sarah Dove is a supporter of Senate Bill 5, the law that would limit collective bargaining and replace salary ladders with performance pay, among other things. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few months, you probably [...]
Education Week’s interactive timeline digs into the publication’s archives to show the sweep of education policy changes through the years, from the Reagan era on forward. One example, from May 1983: “A dramatic move by President Reagan to “seize the educational initiative” has made teacher pay central in a partisan political debate and has prompted [...]
“I disagree with so much of what OEA says and does. I can’t imagine them taking even one more penny from my paycheck.” That’s a Facebook post from Ohio’s new teacher liaison, an elementary teacher from Gahanna named Sarah Dove who has been charged with reaching out to educators across the state to get their [...]
Earlier this week, we wrote about a Columbus middle school teacher who was accused of cursing at students and pushing and shoving them. Instead of firing him, the Columbus school district assigned him to work not in a classroom, but in a distribution warehouse. Firing him would have been expensive and would have forced students [...]
Fifteen Ohio public-school teachers filed a federal class-action suit against the Ohio Education Association and its regional affiliates yesterday, claiming that paying union dues violates their civil rights. The suit is part of an effort by Ohio Republicans to reduce the power of public-sector unions. It comes as unions and GOP supporters face off in [...]
In comments Friday to a conference of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan called for radical changes to teacher education and recruitment, including paying teachers more. In some cases, much more: We should also be asking how the teaching profession might change if salaries started at $60,000 and [...]
Columbus middle school teacher Eric Brentlinger should not have been in the classroom, according to the district’s middle school supervisor. But still, he spent nearly 30 years in Columbus public school classrooms.
From the Bedford school district teachers’ contract: “The Board and the Association acknowledge that a professional staff member’s primary responsibility is to teach.”
As some Ohio schools move towards paying teachers based on their performance in the classroom, one big city district is ending its teacher performance bonus program. The New York City Department of Education will shut down the program that distributed $56 million in performance bonuses to teachers and other school staff members over the last [...]
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