Money talks, teachers walk? (Notebook: educations information from schools, business, research and professional organizations).If you had the choice of taking a teaching job in your hometown or moving to a nearby state and making $10,000 more, what would you do? Well, Donya Shaffer, a recent Oklahoma teachers college graduate, faces just such a choice. While her decision isn't final, she has left a resume with the Dallas school system, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a report in The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times. Of course, attracting teachers from one area to another is old hat in these days of teacher shortages, but Dallas is aggressively courting teachers from five neighboring states, mostly by offering more money. The district's first offer to Shaffer was $34,000, with a signing bonus A signing bonus or sign-on bonus is a sum of money paid to a new employee by a company as an incentive to join that company. These are often given as a way of making a compensation package more attractive to the employee e.g. if the annual salary is lower than they desire. of $4,500, a $250 stipend sti·pend n. A fixed and regular payment, such as a salary for services rendered or an allowance. [Middle English stipendie, from Old French, from Latin st for classroom supplies and a free laptop computer. A few weeks later, Dallas upped its offer by $3,000 per year. It would take Shaffer 20 years to earn $37,000 in her hometown of Chickasha, Okla. "Obviously, it's all about money," Oklahoma Superintendent Sandy Garrett Sandy Garrett is an American Democratic politician from the US state of Oklahoma. Garrett is currently serving as the Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction. She was first elected to this office in 1990, and again in 1994, 1998, 2002, and 2006. told the Times. "Oklahoma doesn't have it. We'd like to build a fence at the Red River." Texas hires about 3,500 teachers from beyond its borders, according to the Texas Education Agency. By the end of June, the Times reported that Dallas had filled 400 of its 456 teaching vacancies. |
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