Schools Try Bonuses

Schools are getting creative in trying to attract teachers

Paid student internships, signing bonuses, teacher-led leadership committees and regular meetings with school system leaders would help, too.

Oklahoma schools chief says he's trying to let teachers keep ... - WTOP

Walters came under fire after reports that several teachers who were awarded the bonuses were being told they had to repay the funds by the end ...

Should Schools Offer Cash Bonuses for Good Test Scores?

Getting paid for getting good grades would cause students to actually study and try to do well, since they know a garaunteed benefit would be ...

State Seeks Repayment of Errant Teacher Bonuses - Oklahoma Watch

The Department of Education overpaid at least $290,000 in teacher bonuses and is working to claw back the money mere months after it was ...

Oklahoma teachers mistakenly got up to $50,000 in bonuses. Now ...

The errant payments were awarded to educators who applied for the bonuses last fall through a statewide program designed to recruit teachers for ...

Report: Teacher Bonuses Boost Student Outcomes Slightly

They found that students in the bonus schools posted test scores that were slightly higher by 1 to 2 percentile points.* That test score bump is ...

Rewarding Teachers with Merit-Based Pay | by David Cutler - Medium

Try our… ... This is a fair criticism, but as Ritter says, “the devil is in the details.” If a school offered just 10 bonuses to the top-ten ...

Schools Are Attracting New Teachers With Generous Sign-On ...

Small sign-on bonuses have been tried, but in a failing economy with uncertain prospects, many teachers require larger bonuses to perk interest.

Teachers Are Being Paid Thousands in Bonuses To Prevent Them ...

Schools across the United States have begun offering teachers thousands in COVID-19 "retention bonuses" as an incentive to stay on throughout the school year.

Tennessee governor offers teachers pay boost with private-school ...

Democratic Sen. Jeff Yarbro of Nashville said it is clear the governor is trying to buy teachers' support with bonus pay. “It's offensive ...

$10000 sign-on bonus: New-teacher shortage has Michigan schools ...

$10,000 sign-on bonus: New-teacher shortage has Michigan schools trying aggressive approaches ... Fewer people are becoming teachers in Michigan, ...

Right on the Money | Harvard Graduate School of Education

Offering financial incentives to improve education -- providing money rewards to students, teachers, schools, or districts as a way to motivate ...

Union schools increases sign-on bonuses to qualified teachers in ...

Union Public Schools has increased the sign-on bonus for qualified teachers for the 2022-2023 school year in an effort to recruit and retain ...

The Reading School District is using signing bonuses to try to attract ...

Leisawitz said the bonuses are just one part of the district's efforts to address its staffing struggles. Over the past year, he said, the ...

Michigan schools are offering new teachers up to $10k bonus. Is ...

The rural K-12 school of just 93 students is offering up to a $5,000 bonus: a new hire would receive $2,500 after teaching for a year and ...

How schools are trying to address the national teacher shortage

Some school districts are providing bonuses and stipends to retain and attract new teachers, in addition to boosting base pay. District of ...

UW study: Want highly trained teachers to work at high-poverty ...

Since 2007, the state of Washington has tried to persuade more teachers to work and stay at high-poverty schools by offering them a $10,000 ...

Oklahoma City Public School Board approves teacher bonus program

OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — A plan to help schools keep their best teachers is getting a second chance. The OKCPS board voted Monday to take part ...

New plan offers up to $50000 signing bonuses to teach in Oklahoma ...

Ryan Walters speaks on April 26 at the Warner Public School Event Center in Warner. "We're trying to recruit teachers and we're trying to get new teachers, ...

Schools turning stimulus checks into $1,000 'thank you' bonuses for ...

PARENTS have been left furious amid reports that schools are reportedly spending parts of their stimulus cash on one-time “teacher bonuses”.