Proposed billion dollar law for excellent teachers.There was such a love fest when Rep. George Miller George Miller may refer to:
"Nothing is more important to a student's academic success than a highly qualified teacher," Miller says. "By recruiting and retaining excellent teachers ... the TEACH Act will boost student achievement and will help cut the achievement gap between poor students and their more advantaged peers." Miller's $3.4 billion-plus proposal, co-sponsored by 50 Democrats, takes direct aim at the issue of retaining quality teachers. "Overall we're really happy with the major portions of the bill," says Denise Cardinal, a spokeswoman for the National Education Association. This sentiment is echoed by the Alliance for Excellent Education, American Federation of Teachers American Federation of Teachers (AFT), an affiliate of the AFL-CIO. It was formed (1916) out of the belief that the organizing of teachers should follow the model of a labor union, rather than that of a professional association. , Business Roundtable Business Roundtable (BRT), an association consisting of the chief executive officers of major U.S. corporations that was founded in 1972 through the merger of the three preexisting business organizations. , Teach for America Teach For America (TFA) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to close the academic achievement gap between children from different socio-economic backgrounds. and many others. The problem with the TEACH Act is likely to be that it has too much. "This bill is designed to be comprehensive, to show how important teaching is and how much it will take to turn teaching around," says Jeremy Ayers, a research associate at the Alliance for Excellent Education. "But the budget on it is high, and unfortunately [that] will make it hard to pass." The more likely scenario is that pieces of the legislation will be tacked on to some other bill that has legs, such as the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act The Higher Education Act may refer to an Act of either the Congress of the United States or of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
Highlights of the proposed TEACH act include: * $2.2 billion for premium pay for highly qualified teachers who teach in hard-to-staff schools * $300 million in grants to create teacher induction Induction (educator) Induction is the support and guidance provided to novice teachers and school administrators in the early stages of their careers. Induction encompasses orientation to the workplace, socialization, mentoring, and guidance through beginning teacher programs. * $200 million to create "career advancement ladders" for teachers aimed at augmenting the salaries of master teachers * $200 million to recruit science and math teachers * $100 million for improving principal training * Grants directed to undergraduate students who promise to teach * Loan forgiveness Forgiveness Angelica, Suor is forgiven by the Virgin Mary for ill-considered suicide. [Ital. Opera: Puccini, Suor Angelica, Westerman, 364] Bishop of Digne for veteran teachers |
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