December 2013
Recap of the Year’s
Trendlines
Welcome to NCTQ’s newly re-named Teacher Trendline newsletter (subscribe here). A special shout-out goes to the
anonymous survey respondent who proposed the new name.
This month we look back at the topics we’ve covered this year. By far,
teacher salaries are the most popular topic we covered in 2013. Here’s a taste
of the high and low salary data from February.
We sliced salary data a little differently in June when we looked at
urban versus suburban salaries. Would the “urban myth” of high salaries in the
suburbs bear out? At the beginning of a teacher’s career, not so much, but by
the end of one’s career (on average, in our sample), the financial advantage
shifts to the ‘burbs.
Read the full issues of these two Teacher Trendlines along with the
others we’ve published this year. Links to each issue are below.
January
— Who is evaluating teachers?
February
— Teacher salaries
March
— Excessing and placement
April
— Health insurance premiums
May — Substitute teachers
June — Teacher salaries, urban vs. suburban
July — Timing of teacher contracts
August
— Student and teacher school years
October
— Philadelphia’s contract negotiations
November
— The role of teacher performance in evaluations, pay and layoffs
Have an idea for a 2014 Teacher Trendline? Email us at teachertrendline@nctq.org.
The Teacher Trendline is NCTQ’s monthly newsletter
designed just for school district officials (subscribe here). Each month we use data from NCTQ’s Teacher Contract Database to highlight the latest trends in
school district policies and collective bargaining agreements nationwide. The database contains teacher policies from
114 school districts, including the 50 largest districts, the largest district
in each state, Broad Prize winners, Gates investment districts and members of
the Council of the Great City Schools. Teacher
policies from all 50 states are also included. Send feedback to teachertrendline@nctq.org.
