develop initiatives specifically designed for veterans; • $400,000 to establish the Tennessee Promise Bridge Program to bring first-generation college students to campus prior to fall enrollment; and • $48 million for state employee raises tied to performance and market adjustments (Haslam 2015)...
many districts have been forced to go to a 4 day school week. Here in Nashville, a city with a booming economy that outpaces national averages, parents and teachers find themselves having to fight not only for school employee raises and basic supplies, but...
Tennessee is not only one of the lowest spenders, but Tennessee spends less as a share of gross state product than most other states. Tennessee has one of the largest income gaps between public school enrolled and private school enrolled children, and has among the higher shares of private sch...
In a very recent breach of contractcase,a former employee of the defendant was held not to have been constructively discharged from employment, and, therefore, was not entitled to a bonus provided for in his employment agreement. The Court of Appeals of Tennessee determined that the former emplo...
Low pay, low trust, little opportunity to change their situation – all this as Lee and the GOP give HUGE raises to the TN Highway Patrol and prison guards. Priorities. We need y’all to realize hurting teachers/public schools is by design.This teacher shortage is a feature, not a bug...
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“We took the plans we’re competing with, laid them down and came out with something we can have in our budget,” he (Director of Schools Jeff Luttrell) said, noting that the district has budgeted $3.4 million in employee raises, with the majority going to classroom teachers. ...
but if you are going to promise something of substance, offer something of substance. Hell, he quoted Churchill, that alone raises the bar. Per usual with Lee and his team, we are left to debate the quality of action as opposed to the actual policy. Something that has come to define th...
Here is the thing. Teachers really can’t go on like this, and we are having less and less to lose. I think it is HIGH time that the city of Nashville, not just Dr. Joseph and the BOE put school employee raises as a number one priority. The 2% “raise” we are currently being ...
TEA’s number one priority will be pay raises for teachers. The governor promised to make Tennessee the fastest improving state in teacher salary and we plan to hold him to it. To recruit and retain the best teachers, we must make sure that promise becomes a reality and our teachers receiv...