Claire Fiddian-Green: Teacher salary increases require creative solutions
The most important factor in student academic achievement is quality teaching in the classroom.
The most important factor in student academic achievement is quality teaching in the classroom.
I know Joe Donnelly. Joe Donnelly is a friend of mine. That wasn’t the Joe Donnelly I know on those negative television ads.
The city of Indianapolis will be better for the infusion of talent it is poised to see in the upcoming political season.
This can be a game changer for employers facing hiring challenges to help skill-up their workforce.
Widening educational opportunities can dramatically increase the number of residents with postsecondary training and build a future talent base.
A focus at both the local and state level should be to encourage business development that will provide full time jobs with a living wage.
The impact of the committee’s efforts is felt year round.
We can and must do better. As government cannot or will not, we all need to step-up.
As models of providing health care continue to change and evolve, home health care cooperatives are growing rapidly.
I’m optimistic the jobs aren’t gone for good, just shifting.
The bottom line is that if we wish to attract top level talent to teaching, we have to pay reasonable salaries. But reasonable is going to be the subject of a lively debate.
We have dozens of school districts that pay starting teachers less than $35,00 a year.
Among the House Republicans … there seems to have been little introspection, despite losing the House again.
The bedrock of democracy is strong, and so are we, even when it doesn’t always feel like the ground beneath us is a solid as it used to be.
In spite of general attitudes about my generation, some millennials are taking matters into their own hands—and doing it quite well.
The real growth areas of the state are the suburbs. Until 2016, this was a trend that overwhelmingly benefited Republicans. That may have changed.
Even Republican voters should be disgusted, or at a minimum, turned off by strategies like these.
It doesn’t take much sweat to work a little harder, hear a few extra bills and put in a few more hours of research and discussion.
Patients with legitimate chronic pain are commonly weaned down on dosage … or told they will no longer receive opioids.
Bush reminds us that leadership isn’t always doing the people’s will; sometimes it’s helping us find our better selves.