Administrators at several of New York's top schools attributed the tuition inflation to rising teacher salaries, ever-expanding programs and renovations to aging buildings.
AFTER a decade of generous pay rises, teachers found the three-year pay deal proposed on January 15th by Ed Balls, the schools secretary, distinctly underwhelming.
But the bar is notched higher annually, and the penalties for schools that fail to get over it also rise: teachers and administrators can lose jobs and see their school taken over.
As I describe in my new book, "Dakini Power," more and more Buddhist women are now rising as teachers in their own right who understand their responsibility: to invigorate and bolster women to hold up "half the sky" as spiritual seekers and teachers.
If unemployment rises, teachers' pay packages will begin to look increasingly attractive alongside more precarious private-sector jobs.
He embarked upon a 35-year career in the Detroit school system in 1937, rising from teacher to become superintendent in 1966.
And although pay rises for teachers were also modest in the previous two years, median teachers' pay has risen by a fifth in real terms in the decade since Labour came to power.But it also reflects many teachers' sense of betrayal by a government they initially welcomed as their own.
Performance-related pay for teachers was introduced in 2003 but Gove announced last year he was abolishing long-service pay progression and automatic pay rises for teachers reaching a certain standard.
Pay and benefits would rise, but teachers would embrace reform — including sacrificing job security.
