School District

The Roosevelt train District in Maricopa County has at least 21 public schools under its direct system and around fifty private and public middle and high schools all located around the dominion. Private and Catholic schools however, be not administered by the territory in the sense that they be autonomous in terms of management, implementing policy guidelines, instructional materials, and salary compensation for teachers.The Roosevelt Elementary School District in Maricopa County is considered outsized in size with its total number of students attending with 11, 902 and six hundred ninety-one certified teachers (Classroom Dollars and proposition 301 results). The districts student ratio per teacher since 2004 up to 2006 was at seventeen students per teachers. How is a teachers pay determined? Salaries of teachers in Arizona be based on the per-pupil amount of capital allocated to the district.Based on the comparative information, the average teacher-student ratio that recei ves a standardized salary of 42,500 is 17 students per one teacher (Classroom Dollars Proposition p. 61). That is, a teacher discourse seventeen students on a regular basis is qualified to receive standardized salary. The salary of a teacher is determined by the funding formulas of the produce and the municipalities where the school is located (College of Education Paper).The general implication of this system is that the bigger the number of the students the bigger budget allocation for the district, and the better income for the teacher, because correspond to the paper, the teachers salaries comes from the operations and attention budget (College Education paper p. 91). This budget comes from local taxes and from the state. The fund is transferred to the district which turn is responsible for local budgeting. How is salary structured?The district employed a standardized salary compensation for certified teachers based on their efficacy and competency. It means that teachers h ad to be certified that their course are aligned to the teaching profession. and more, the district implements doing based scheme for teachers wherein teachers are expected to yield positive results towards the district goal based on individual and school performance (Class room dollar and proposition). Since 2004, the Roosevelt Elementary School district offered an annual average salary of $42, 500.These compensation schemes are standardized based on performance, competency, and educational qualification as indicated by the five points performance evaluation standard employed by the district (Class room dollar proposition). These performance indicators according to the paper published by the College of Education of the University of Arizona entitled Who will Teach our Young Children includes the degrees of certifications, scores on professional knowledge test, and the years of give birth in teaching.All these form the structure of the standardized salary of the teachers at Roos evelt Elementary districts schools (Who will Teach our Young Children, p. 61). Are there incentives for teachers to earn more money and is this an utile pay system? The district offers an up to more than five thousand dollars incentives to all it employees including teachers, librarians and another(prenominal) staffs. The incentives were given in form additive salary benefits of the eligible employees (Class room dollar proposition).The paper published by the College of Education of the University of Arizona points out that the current incentives and benefits systems implemented by the district are given only to the most productive teachers and those teaching positions that requires special skills or expertise (College of Education Paper, p. 95). Although this performance-based incentives is defined by the state law or other policy and funded by the state, and can be earned yearly by anybody who had done exemplary performance (p. 1), it is quite apparent that these incentives and benefit system is an toothless system for teachers. The College paper published by the University of Arizona expressed pessimism that it this incentive system will soon prevent districts from fiving special incentives (p. 95) to deserving teachers. Thus, according to paper, researchers are looking at ways (p. 95) to lure more teachers. Why the incentive system is not effective? The benefit system is ineffective because there are no clear guidelines about the funding for teacher compensation.These affect the district budgeting because budget defends on per-pupil allocation. However, continues efforts to increase compensation, and benefits and incentives for teachers are a welcome agenda for teachers at Roosevelt Elementary School District. Does the teacher union have to say about the subject? Unfortunately, there is no teacher union at Roosevelt Elementary School District or in any other district in Maricopa, Arizona.This is one factor one why researchers are looking for more effec tive ways of providing teachers salaries, incentives and benefit system. The salaries of teachers are decided only by the school board (College of Education Paper, p. 92). While the teachers union can go forth bargaining for justifiable salaries, incentives and other fringe benefits, this does not happen at Roosevelt Elementary School District or to any other school district in Maricopa, Arizona, due to lack of teachers union.ReferenceClass Dollars and Proposition 301 Roosevelt Elementary School Districthttp//www.auditorgen.state.az.us/Reports/School_Districts/Districts/Roosevelt_ESD/2008/Roosevelt_ESD.pdfCollege of Education, The University of Arizona Who will teach our Children? http//www.aztownhall.org/pdf/92nd_Workbook_complete.pdf Oct.27-30, 2008.