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New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Wednesday said it was concerned with the quality of the primary teacher and warned against a populist approach on appointments that could endanger India’s future.
“It is too serious a matter for us. We are concerned with the future of the country,” said the apex court bench of Justice BS Chauhan and Justice Dipak Misra while hearing a petition by the Gujarat government on the appointment of Shiksha Sahayak (education assistants).
“A populist approach can’t be allowed to destroy the fabric of the education,” Justice Misra observed as court asked the state government to furnish the comparative statement giving the qualification, eligibility criterion and other requirements for the appointment as Vidya Sahayak and the primary teachers
Apex court bench said it is a serious matter and we are concerned with the future of the country.
“We want to understand the concept of education and what kind of quality (education) that is being given to them (primary school students),” the court said as senior counsel UU Lalit, appearing for the state government, sought to address some e queries raised by the court.
As Lalit told the court that the Sahayaks were assisting the primary school teachers, Justice Chauhan observed: “We all had been to school and had never seen assistant teachers assisting the primary teachers.”
Apparently unimpressed by the submission that initially the Sahayak were appointed on contract and after the expiry of the contract period they were regularised, the court said that they were given the pay scale of primary teachers but were not designated as primary teachers.
“Pay scale and status (as a primary teacher) are two different things,” observed Justice Misra, asking why the Sahayaks were being appointed on contract. The court would next hear the matter May 27.
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SIOUX CITY | The Sioux City school district expects to be able to save the jobs of 15 teachers given layoff notices a month ago, after state lawmakers passed an education reform bill Wednesday.
The bill, which was passed by the House and Senate and now needs Gov. Terry Brandstad’s signature, includes a five-year extension of a $32 million early childhood education grant many districts use to hire teachers. Those teachers are placed in early childhood reading programs and are used to help reduce classroom sizes.
Sioux City gets $1.1 million a year through the grant.
“I believe this will allow us to go back to those 15 people we gave pink slips to in April and tell them their jobs are now secure,” board member Doug Batcheller said Thursday.
Batcheller said saving those jobs means the district will keep about half the positions originally slated for elimination due to a combination of state and federal budget cuts.
The district is still waiting to find out the full impact of the education reform bill and how it will affect school funding and next year’s budget and tax levy rate.
Among other provisions, the bill increases minimum starting teacher pay from $28,000 to $33,500 and creates a council to study and recommend a new statewide teacher and administrator evaluation system.
The Iowa State Education Association, the union that represents Iowa’s teachers, praised the bill’s passage.
Association President Tammy Wawro said keeping the grant saves jobs and provides more resources for early childhood education
“I’m glad we’re done,” Wawro said. “It’s saving jobs, and it provides funding for our kids.”
The district is still slated to lay off 14 other teachers and a counselor due to federal budget cuts targeting programs for special education and students in poverty.
The district originally faced 37 layoffs between federal and potential state cuts but trimmed the number down due to retirements and attrition.
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Beaverton won’t have to cut more teachers. That’s the upshot of Tuesday night’s election results for one of Oregon’s largest school districts. It’s good news for school supporters toward the end of a difficult school year.
Beaverton eliminated more than more than 300 teaching positions in this school year, and shuffled an even higher number of teachers around. That was after Beaverton voters narrowly rejected a school levy in 2011.
Julie Bennett is a Beaverton-area parent. She says parents and students felt the cuts across the district — and that motivated them to work on passing the levy on last night’s ballot.
She says in the early part of the campaign, research showed the general community split 50-50 on the measure. But she says parents of kids in the district supported it by a nearly 2-to-1 margin.
She says they had a simple argument to get parents to vote.
Bennett said, “That all of this levy money will go directly to the teachers. And it will make improvements – we knew at each school how many more teachers we would get, and what that would look like for our kids. To me that was the important piece.”
Bennett says like many parents, she went door-to-door for the measure, and talked to the parents of her kids’ classmates. But as eight o’clock approached last night, Bennett says parents weren’t at all sure of the outcome.
Bennett said, “I have to say, we were biting our nails. There was really no way to know. There was no early polling, there’s no forecasting. We were just going off our hopes that we’d done enough, and that it mattered.”
The measure had no organized opposition.
District officials say the $15 million the levy will raise is the difference between further cuts, and adding back 150 teachers. It costs a $1.25 per thousand of assessed value — or about $290 a year for a median-priced home.
Late Tuesday, elsewhere in the state, there were mixed results on school funding measures. Eugene, Milton-Freewater, and Bend La Pine school measures were passing. Measures were losing in Silver Falls and Roseburg. Results were still very close for the Klamath County and Crook County schools.
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A new scheme will offer graduates the chance to apply for over two hundred teaching positions in Northern Ireland within the next few weeks.
In total 230 new teaching jobs will be on offer for students who have graduated since 2010 and recruitment will get underway early next month to fill the positions.
Only 1 in 20 teaching graduates managed to find full time roles after leaving Northern Ireland institutes last year, so it is hoped that the new scheme will redress the balance in 2013.
Adrianne Peltz, president of the Union of Students in Ireland said the new jobs were a great opportunity for newly qualified teachers: “The economic downturn has hit new graduates very hard and it is important that government finds ways of utilising their skills to their potential,” offered Ms Peltz.
The downside to the new Northern Ireland jobs is that they are not permanent; all of the roles on offer are for a two year period only – at least initially.
Education Minister, John O’Dowd said that £12 million had been invested in the scheme which should help both pupils and graduate teachers of Northern Ireland alike.
“As well as targeting those young people who are at risk of underachieving and helping them achieve to their full potential, this scheme will also be a welcome boost for 230 of our recently qualified teachers as it gives them the opportunity to secure valuable teaching experience over the next two years,” said Mr O’Dowd.
The new recruits will start teaching in the next academic year this September, with just less than a third of the jobs on offer in primary schools and the majority in post-primary positions.
As well as trying to find teaching jobs in Northern Ireland for graduates, we also do our best to source other other opportunities for students in Belfast and other regions. From bar work to retail jobs, from fundraising openings to events work, there is a variety of full and part time work on offer for students in Northern Ireland. Have a quick look what is currently available now on our Northern Ireland Student Jobs section.
CAMBRIDGE — The school district is proposing a budget that adds six positions — including five teachers — and maintains programs.
After cutting 35 positions in the last three years, the district wants to maintain all current programs and add support for areas of high need.
“We have cut to the bone in most of the areas in the past,” said Superintendent Vince Canini. “That’s why we felt it was important to stabilize and maintain everything we did have.”
The district is proposing an $18.8 million budget that increases year-to-year spending by $1.5 million, or 9 percent.
The six positions add about $325,000 in spending. The jobs include a teaching aide and teachers for elementary school, foreign language and physical education, along with an educator who will teach math, science and general education development (GED). The elementary teachers are needed to keep class sizes small, Canini said.
Other major increases are in health insurance and pensions, which are going up $348,500 and $324,000 respectively.
In addition, debt to pay off a construction project will cost an extra $457,000, although state aid will offset this expense.
The district is proposing to raise the tax levy by 3.5 percent over the prior year. Under the state’s property tax cap, Cambridge can raise the tax levy by roughly 3.6 percent.
Canini said the board reviewed different options on spending and raising the tax levy.
The tax levy increase and a $373,000 state aid boost allows the district to restore positions, Canini said.
This is the first time in four years the district will receive an increase in state aid, he said.
Over the last four years, school districts lost state aid because the state reduced its spending to close a deficit.
In Cambridge, the state aid cuts were severe because the district’s high property values made the district, from the state’s perspective, appear wealthy. But household incomes have not increased at the same rate as property values.
May 18
By Betty Adams badams@centralmaine.com
Staff Writer
WALES — Nine teaching jobs will be cut if the proposed $17.7 million budget is adopted in Regional School Unit 4 — Litchfield, Sabattus and Wales — and each town will be billed more to support that budget.
RSU 4 MEETINGS
Budget informational meetings are set for these sites:
• 6:30 p.m. May 29 at Carrie Ricker School, Litchfield
• 6:30 p.m. May 30 at Oak Hill Middle School, Sabattus
• 6:30 p.m. June 4 at Oak Hill High School, Wales
The budget will be presented at three informational meetings — one in each town — and then be subject to a June 5 districtwide vote and a June 11 referendum at the polls in each town.
The school board voted April 24 to adopt the budget, which is 0.85 percent, or $150,000, greater than the current budget.
Scott Eldridge, the district’s business manager, said that part of the increase is an anticipated $220,000 contribution to the teachers’ pension fund, which historically has been paid by the state.
If the budget passes, Litchfield residents who own property assessed at $150,000 will pay almost $149 more annually to support the budget. In Sabattus, that same homeowner would pay $245 more, and in Wales, the bill would be almost $217 more.
Among the staff members whose jobs would be eliminated are two Spanish teachers, one each at Oak HiIl middle and high schools; a Project Reach teacher at the middle school; English, language arts, mathematics and social studies teachers at the high school; a fifth-grade teacher at Carrie Ricker School; and a teacher at Libby-Tozier Elementary School.
The high school would continue to offer French and Latin.
Eldridge said the board chose to reinstate $18,000 for seventh-grade sports as well as a teaching post in the intervention program at the high school. The administration had proposed cutting those items.
Reductions in the teaching staff also would result in increased class sizes at Carrie Ricker, Libby-Tozier and Oak Hill High schools, according to Superintendent James Hodgkin.
“Counting the cuts that we have proposed this year, RSU 4 has had to cut over 30 teaching positions, support staff and administration over the past four years,” Hodgkin said in a message to residents. “While it may be hard to think about future budgets, there is very good reason for the RSU to feel optimistic about funding in the future. Things have a tendency to go in trends, and the factors that affect school funding appear to be in our favor in future years. Somehow, we need to find a way to get through this budget cycle without causing too much damage to our schools.”
The schools have a total enrollment of 1,431. Eleven other students are placed outside the district.
Eldridge said the district previously used carryover balances to keep tax rates down. Last year almost $400,000 was carried over, but this year “there’s no money left in the carryover,” he said.
The largest expenses in the proposed budget are almost $6.4 million for regular instruction, $3 million for special education and $2.1 million for facilities maintenance.
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By Betty Adams badams@centralmaine.com
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WALES — Nine teaching jobs will be cut if the proposed $17.7 million budget is adopted in Regional School Unit 4 — Litchfield, Sabattus and Wales — and each town will be billed more to support that budget.
RSU 4 MEETINGS
Budget informational meetings are set for these sites:
• 6:30 p.m. May 29 at Carrie Ricker School, Litchfield
• 6:30 p.m. May 30 at Oak Hill Middle School, Sabattus
• 6:30 p.m. June 4 at Oak Hill High School, Wales
The budget will be presented at three informational meetings — one in each town — and then be subject to a June 5 districtwide vote and a June 11 referendum at the polls in each town.
The school board voted April 24 to adopt the budget, which is 0.85 percent, or $150,000, greater than the current budget.
Scott Eldridge, the district’s business manager, said that part of the increase is an anticipated $220,000 contribution to the teachers’ pension fund, which historically has been paid by the state.
If the budget passes, Litchfield residents who own property assessed at $150,000 will pay almost $149 more annually to support the budget. In Sabattus, that same homeowner would pay $245 more, and in Wales, the bill would be almost $217 more.
Among the staff members whose jobs would be eliminated are two Spanish teachers, one each at Oak HiIl middle and high schools; a Project Reach teacher at the middle school; English, language arts, mathematics and social studies teachers at the high school; a fifth-grade teacher at Carrie Ricker School; and a teacher at Libby-Tozier Elementary School.
The high school would continue to offer French and Latin.
Eldridge said the board chose to reinstate $18,000 for seventh-grade sports as well as a teaching post in the intervention program at the high school. The administration had proposed cutting those items.
Reductions in the teaching staff also would result in increased class sizes at Carrie Ricker, Libby-Tozier and Oak Hill High schools, according to Superintendent James Hodgkin.
“Counting the cuts that we have proposed this year, RSU 4 has had to cut over 30 teaching positions, support staff and administration over the past four years,” Hodgkin said in a message to residents. “While it may be hard to think about future budgets, there is very good reason for the RSU to feel optimistic about funding in the future. Things have a tendency to go in trends, and the factors that affect school funding appear to be in our favor in future years. Somehow, we need to find a way to get through this budget cycle without causing too much damage to our schools.”
The schools have a total enrollment of 1,431. Eleven other students are placed outside the district.
Eldridge said the district previously used carryover balances to keep tax rates down. Last year almost $400,000 was carried over, but this year “there’s no money left in the carryover,” he said.
The largest expenses in the proposed budget are almost $6.4 million for regular instruction, $3 million for special education and $2.1 million for facilities maintenance.
Betty Adams — 621-5631
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Dear Editor,
Recognising that the last effort on this subject (SN, April 26) may not have fully satisfied expectations, I sincerely hope that the accompanying table will put in clearer perspective the substantial differentiation between the sample of ‘public service’ jobs and those in the teaching hierarchy in the education system.
It is hoped that stakeholders ‒ institutions and individuals alike ‒ will recognise the inequitabilities inherent in the comparative analysis.
Yours faithfully,
E B John
Thanks to an additional $385,000 from the Manhattan Beach Education Foundation, the Manhattan Beach Unified School District is able to shorten its potential teacher layoffs for the 2013-2014 academic year to five.
MBEF Nina Patel announced the additional funds at last night’s school district board meeting, raising MBEF’s previously announced $5 million grant to $5,385,000.
The extra funds are being specifically used to save teaching positions and maintain small class sizes, said Susan Warshaw, MBEF executive director Thursday.
“I was very happy to personally say ‘Welcome back,’ said MBUSD Superintendent Dr. Michael Matthews late Wednesday. “Delivering the news to staff was a great way to spend my day.”
Matthews has publicly said he would keep teachers informed every step of the way since the countdown to layoff teachers began in late February.
Forced to meet a state required deadline of March 15th, by which time all potential teachers who could be laid off must be notified, the school board voted to send out 24.6 pink slips to teachers for the upcoming school year.
Direction from the school board to make budget cuts everywhere else they could then resulted in MBUSD administrators managing to whittle the number down to approximately 11 cut teaching positions.
MBEF’s $5,385,000 now means 5 teaching positions will not be filled next year unless more money is forthcoming, said Matthews. Those positions are an athletic director position at Mira Costa High School, a special assignment teacher at Manhattan Beach Middle School, two Spanish teachers and one counselor.
As school administrators were combing through budgets, making cuts items such as books and supplies, so too was MBEF applying the same mindset to their funds.
“We looked under every rock ourselves,” said Warshaw. They found $100,000 allocated to the current year for a teaching position that hadn’t been filled and moved it to the 2013-2014 grant allocation. “Scrimping and saving” and donations from the Parent Teacher Associations helped raise the additional $385,000 MBEF has granted to be used to keep small elementary class classes small, retain reading specialist jobs and to maintain small humanities and English classes in the sixth to ninth grades.
As for the five remaining positions set to be cut, Matthews said, “The governor’s budget just came out, the legislature is still in session… Nothing is done yet. There still may be things that happen that enable us to keep all of our teachers.”
He said it’s not uncommon for public school teachers to receive pink slips that are later rescinding, even after budgets have been adopted.
MBUSD plans to adopt its 2013-21014 budget no later than June 18th, he said.
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