Columbia School District should use surplus to pay teachers

One is to use the $2.2 million that was left over in this year's budget to operate the salary schedule and be prepared to dip into the reserve ...

State's education department wants to use Missouri's $6B surplus to ...

Establish a fund to help local school districts pay for the increased minimum starting salary and to increase teacher pay overall · Increase ...

Columbia Board of Education approves $292 million budget

The budget features $16 million more to go toward teacher salaries. The district ended this past school year with a $10 million budget surplus.

Gov. Mike Parson wants 'big ideas' for using Missouri budget surplus

... high school students who want to be teachers and will promise to return to the sponsoring district after graduation. But her suggestions ...

Forget 4-day school weeks. This is the problem. Demand action, we ...

I believe our school system is broken in my opinion. Teachers have to spends far too many hours and use their own money to keep students ...

New Missouri House speaker says massive budget surplus should ...

“For too long our teachers have been compensated by an out-of-date pay scale. It's a flawed system that rewards time served instead of output ...

Columbia school districts combat lingering teacher shortfall

Those lingering vacancies have Richland One and Two deploying smaller-scale measures to offer financial incentives for teachers to stick around ...

The Complexities of Tackling Teacher Shortages With Pay Incentives

Some school systems have been experimenting with targeted financial incentives. Separate groups of researchers studied what happened in two ...

Purchasing - Columbia Public Schools

The Purchasing department assists in the procurement of materials, equipment, and services for all departments of the Columbia Public School District.

School Budgets 101

This is where the 'first in, first out' rule would apply. Forward funding is typically not available for competitive grant programs. As such, school districts ...

Surplus Schools Pose Problems for Districts - Education Week

... schools—by the start of the 2013-14 school year would leave the district to find new uses for more than 40 vacant buildings. In Kansas City ...

Local opinion: Use state budget surplus for teacher pay increases

Lee promised in his State of the State address Monday to do just that. He proposed a record $117 million in teacher salary increases and $649 ...

Do school districts (in the USA) have extra money now that they aren ...

No, they do not have extra money. Here is why. They don't operate as a business. Teachers are still getting their salaries. All benefits to all employees for ...

A Surplus of FORMER Teachers | The Merrow Report

So, who benefits when schools have to find replacements for so many teachers every year? The obvious answer would seem to be school boards ...

CoMo PUBLIC SCHOOLS ALERT! Higher property taxes DO NOT ...

Columbia Public Schools is asking for our permission to raise property taxes 54 cents to increase teacher salaries. The increase will pay to hire the best ...

Richland One didn't tell teachers about retention bonus | Columbia ...

COLUMBIA — In March, Richland One's school board voted to set aside $7 million for a “retention incentive” the Columbia district would pay ...

This Arkansas school turned solar savings into better teacher pay

“Let's use that money to start pumping up teachers' salaries,” Hester said in an interview. “It's the way we're going to attract and retain ...

Low relative pay and high incidence of moonlighting play a role in ...

... school system that generate extra pay but also help them grow professionally as teachers. ... education from Columbia University's Teachers ...

SC has a surplus in teacher loan repayments as more exit the field

COLUMBIA — More of South Carolina's once-aspiring teachers are opting to pay back state loans they could otherwise wipe out by staying in a ...