Denver public school teachers are on strike this morning, the 9th major educator walkout nationwide in a year. As many as 5,700 could picket. Story w @DanaGoldstein.https://nyti.ms/2UMqLZE
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As someone who does not typically report on education, I was also astounded by the teacher stories that I heard in my interviews.
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An example: Rebecca Lovvorn, 32, is a teacher who uses food banks to feed her kids. She lives in a friend's basement with her three children, outside of the school district, because Denver has become too expensive.
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She will make about $44,000 this year, she said. But she expects to take home just $31,200, after taxes and health insurance payments. The federal poverty rate for a family of four is $25,100.
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Most striking: Rebecca works in a school in a juvenile detention center, but finds it hard to tell her students to get right with the law when she is struggling so much while doing things right.
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“I have kids that are doing very illegal activities that I know for sure make better money than I do," Rebecca said, of her students. "They are 15 years old. And that is a hard rationale to confront.”
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