The city's powerful teachers' union, which has criticized many of Mr. Bloomberg's changes but whose members have been the recipients of hefty pay raises, eventually provided key support in his bid to renew control over the schools.
B1 EDUCATION B11 Giuliani's Teacher Pay Plan The mayor proposed giving the most effective summer school teachers a hefty reward, enough to almost double their summer salaries, but some teachers would get no bonus.
31 Fresh Air Fund 34 EDUCATION Excelling at Charter Schools A national study found that charter school students often do better academically than their traditional counterparts despite consistent financial shortcomings and hefty reliance on inexperienced teachers.
It didn't work, and the students didn't score higher even with hefty incentives for the teachers.
President Barack Obama on Tuesday thanked Mabel Hefty, his fifth grade teacher, in honor of National Teacher Appreciation Day.
Ms. Weingarten has repeatedly called for the next contract to include hefty salary increases to keep teachers from flocking to suburban schools that offer more money.
Although beautifully designed, these software suites can come with a hefty price tag, meaning that most researchers, teachers and students are lucky if they can afford just one.
But the mayoral race is heating up when the union, the United Federation of Teachers, is focused on one thing: getting as hefty a pay increase as possible for city teachers, who have been working without a contract since November.
A number of ghost schools are in the country where hefty amounts of salaries are being given to teachers every month who are not even fulfilling their duties.
Meanwhile, Mr. Hevesi was the one promising to build 105,000 homes and give hefty pay raises to police officers and public-school teachers.
