Teachers make more than many people I know
Right now in this country, we have students excelling in science who want to become teachers — they want to teach but they can’t. My plan will close the teacher pay gap and finally ensure teachers are paid their worth.
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Many of the teachers I know have a 2nd job.
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I hired teachers for a decade. The issue isn't that there's too few teachers - it's that there are too many applying for the jobs. There's an endless sea of people willing to take the job for less. If you want to raise teacher salaries, increase the licensing requirements.
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Of course if you raise licensing requirements, the people you purport to want to help won't be able to get the jobs. Or you'll box out others who are less qualified. Those pesky economic principles!
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Since 1970 the cost of education per k-12 student has increased nearly 200% while teacher salary and education outcomes in mathematics, science and reading have remained nearly static. Where is our money going if not to teachers?
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Administrators. Superintendents and upper-level administration in large school districts are paid upward of $300,000 a year, while a highly effective teacher, with 15+ years of experience makes less than $60,000. My take home pay has actually decreased over the last 5 years.
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What is your plan? Do you have place were “We the People” can read ur plans. It sounds like you have a lot of plans and have never seen anything about them.
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Exactly
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Also, lower the barrier to entry into the profession. Too many schools (June included) front-load teacher prep with paperwork and sometimes unnecessary coursework.
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spot on! It’s always MORE paperwork every year.
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