Why do they not talk about management salaries in NYC.
6-figure salaries, eh? Boy, do I teach in the wrong state.
The average teacher salary in our high school district is over $80,000.
And they just put a $30 million tax hike on the ballot.
The administrator of our K-12 district is pulling in $300k a year, too.
No poor teachers in the neighborhood.
Our district starts new teachers (fresh out of college) around 40K. Not bad for 185 days a year. However, a good teacher puts in more hours in a day and more days in a year and they are worth every penny. I just wish we could get rid of the bad ones and reward the good ones.
My home town. I graduated Scarsdale High School in the 60s.
Apropos of nothing.
Good teachers deserve to make a pretty penny. Their work is of tremendous importance.
Damn! Now I feel guilty about "taking advantage" of all those ed majors in my college days.
same on long island. and they retire with 90% pensions. they are bankrupting the taxpayers here - senior citizens forced to move, new arrivals living 3-4 familes per house so they can pay the property taxes. the school parking lots are full of Lexus and BMWs.
Good teachers deserve the chedder-- it's the fat-@ssed bureaucrats in their pencil-pushing cubby-holes making $120,000 / year here in L.A. that fries my grits.
6 figure salaries for teachers? Absolutely as it should be!
Is this possible? I live in Washington State and am a 25 year veteran teacher. The last raise I had was at year 17, the year when Washington State teacher salaries are capped. After 25 years of service, I make about $54,000 a year and that is with a Master's Degree. I must live in the wrong state, too!
3/28/05 AFP via yahoo - It's a mix of a sob story about the plight of our 'underfunded' public schools and a hit piece on President Bush. The nation's public school systems are sinking further into debt, the Census Bureau reported Thursday. They were saddled with over $250 billion in red ink in the 2002-03 school year, up 11 percent from the previous year. <.> Democratic leaders angry with the first go-round of the education law say schools have not received enough money and that Bush's latest budget proposal would make it worse by cutting overall spending. <.> The data, the latest available, also reflect the first full school year after the No Child Left Behind Act was signed into law in January 2002. <.> The sweeping reforms aimed at upgrading school performance are a cornerstone of President Bush's education policy. Recall that, unfortunately, under President Bush education spending has risen by over 40%. By trying to slow his own massive and foolish increases, Bush gets labeled as 'cutting overall spending' on Education.
Considering the above sob story, wouldn't you think it's worth mentioning that the 100 highest salaried public school teachers in Illinois have a pay grade ranging from $173,077 (high end) to $132,940 (low end)? Check out this site, they list every one. And click here for the 100 highest paid Illinois public school administrators who make from $302,746 (high end) to $194,822 (low end). Pretty amazing huh? This is just for Illinois, I'm sure other states have similar problems. I'll post any other sites I run across here.
Even better when you consider the school year in NYS is 180 days...
One big problem with teacher salaries is that it is not easy to determine who is a good teacher and who's not. But $100K in Scarsdale isn't a lot: housing is incredibly expensive around here (I'm not too far away in Ridgefield, CT).
That is for just nine months work, mind you. In real dollars as compared to other professions, a teacher making $100,000 a year is earning at a rate of $133,000 a year. And they enjoy top rate benefits, include retirement at 80% of their salary or more.
Anyone that says teachers are underpaid is very uniformed or is being purposely deceptive.
That's pretty high pay for 9 months a year's work.
Problem is not the teachers.
It's their union and mostly the kid's families and what the community will tolerate.
Scarsdale is probably ok but super PC.
Inner city is lost....no amount of money will cure it.
Be like me, pay high property taxes for public schools you can't use.
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