Alejandro Toledo, Mr García's predecessor, doubled teachers' salaries (to an average of $350 a month) but did not tie that to higher standards.In this section Au revoir separatism, bonjour "autonomy" Bachelet tries again Before the sunrise When teacher is a dunce ReprintsIn December, the education ministry announced that all teachers would have to take a proficiency exam.
Duncan's heightened praise of teachers came through at a July speech at the conference of the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards, where he called for doubling teacher pay.
The supplemental pension plan that the union is seeking would double our teachers' current pensions.
The new plan, he said, would eventually double the teachers' annual retirement benefits.
This goes double for teachers or administrators.
"If you double a teacher's pay scale, you'll attract people who aren't called to teach... and these teachers that are called to teach, regardless of the pay scale, they would teach.
Olivier Blanchard's new introduction to macroeconomics is a textbook that (almost) doubles as teacher too.
The bargaining table today we've talked about that before is not going to find on it a doubling of teacher salaries.
But here, on the second floor of Tulane's student union, the 34-year-old Fischman, a real-life Jerry Maguire, doubles as teacher, coach and cheerleader in leading a 40-minute test-prep session for the Wonderlic exam, which three of his clients will take the next morning as part of Tulane's pro day for prospective NFL employers.
Many of the in-house yoga teachers double as massage therapists, and as a group they offer a tantalizing array of treatments with exotic names like Golden Glow and Cloud Forest Magic.
