A closer look at the city’s salary freeze savings math
Earlier today, I wondered how the city figured that eliminating planned 2 percent raises for teachers and principals would save $400 million next year, considering that an identical cut to this year’s budget in January was projected to yield just $148 million.
Now I have the answer.
Each time planned raises were reduced — in January from 4 percent to 2 percent, and today from 2 percent to nothing — the city cut next year’s budget by $150 million, according to Department of Education spokeswoman Ann Forte. Together, the two reductions amount to $300 million in savings.
The extra $100 million is what the city set aside this year in case it reached a contract deal with the teachers union to turn Mayor Bloomberg’s intention to give 2 percent raises each year for two years into reality. But
Remainders: D.C. teachers union approves new contract
Now I have the answer.
Each time planned raises were reduced — in January from 4 percent to 2 percent, and today from 2 percent to nothing — the city cut next year’s budget by $150 million, according to Department of Education spokeswoman Ann Forte. Together, the two reductions amount to $300 million in savings.
The extra $100 million is what the city set aside this year in case it reached a contract deal with the teachers union to turn Mayor Bloomberg’s intention to give 2 percent raises each year for two years into reality. But
Remainders: D.C. teachers union approves new contract
- A study reports that teachers with good value-added scores are the ones principals hire anyway.
- The final version of the common core standards for math and reading were released today.
- The D.C. teachers union ratified its new teachers contract, produced after years of negotiations.
- The first research on Denver’s pay-for-performance plan shows reported positive results.
- A new study (pdf) reports that teachers’ effectiveness is unrelated to the colleges they attended.
- The state teachers union posted a long Q & A explaining the new teacher evaluation plan.
- The Hechinger Report has a handy map of which states applied to each round of Race to the Top.
- GOOD magazine’s “guide to education innovation” includes a lot of online learning.
- The city says its push towards virtual education is not a strategy to replace teachers.
- And in honor of today’s start of the National Spelling Bee, here’s the “top ten spelling bee freak-outs.”
