{"id":15669,"date":"2011-10-18T07:46:39","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T07:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=15669"},"modified":"2011-10-18T07:46:39","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T07:46:39","slug":"boe-strikes-pay-rate-for-non-hqts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/boe-strikes-pay-rate-for-non-hqts\/","title":{"rendered":"BOE strikes pay rate for non-HQTs"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By Moneth Deposa<br \/>\nReporter<\/div>\n<p>The CNMI State Board of Education approved Friday the elimination of the salary rate for non-highly qualified personnel from the compensation plan for classroom teachers.<\/p>\n<p>Non-highly qualified personnel were eliminated from the payroll of the Public School System beginning July 31, pursuant to the mandates of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.<\/p>\n<p>The revision on the compensation policy, according to PSS finance director Richard Waldo, is to certify and formalize the non-availability of teaching positions for non-HQTs within the system.<\/p>\n<p>A teacher is considered highly qualified if he or she has a degree, has passed both Praxis 1 and 2 exams, and has valid teaching certificates. HQTs have a starting salary of $30,000 per annum.<\/p>\n<p>Education Commissioner Dr. Rita A. Sablan disclosed Friday that there are currently about 464 classroom teachers-all highly qualified-in public schools. Student enrolment was at 11,011 as of Friday, ranging from kindergarten to 12th grade.<\/p>\n<p>Although PSS has let go of its non-highly qualified teachers, Waldo said the system employs about 19 substitute teachers this school year. These substitutes are hired on a per-need basis only.<\/p>\n<p>He described them as \u201cseasonal educators\u201d who will work for short-term periods only, such as one week or more. \u201cThey are paid $100 per day if they have bachelor&#8217;s degree and $60 per day for those with associate&#8217;s degree,\u201d explained Waldo.<\/p>\n<p>PSS officials said that student test scores on the SAT-10 have almost doubled since the adoption of highly-qualified mandate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Moneth Deposa Reporter The CNMI State Board of Education approved Friday the elimination of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}