Posted on 03/23/2019 8:17:11 AM PDT by Libloather
WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris on Saturday will call for a significant federal investment in teacher pay, a campaign aide says, the first policy proposal that she has put forth since officially launching her 2020 campaign.
At a rally in Houston, Harris will argue that the U.S. faces a teacher pay crisis that requires a national response and will commit to closing the teacher pay gap during her first term as president, the aide said.
Harris' campaign is citing a study from the liberal-leaning Economic Policy Institute that found that what's called the "teacher pay penalty" - the difference in compensation for teachers and comparable public workers - is larger than ever. The Economic Policy Institute study puts the teacher compensation penalty at a record-high 11.1 percent in 2017.
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Teacher unions are the Dems #1 donors year after year. Tens of millions a year
Not true.
Teachers, most of them, have a nine month salary divided equally into twelve months.
I'm a teacher. I don't get paid during the summer months, unless I teach summer classes.
Apparently there is a severe teacher shortage. In Florida, it’s 2,000 teachers. Weirdly the school year is surviving. I guess a bunch of substitute teachers are basically full time. Stop testing, stop pc garbage, let teachers discipline (too a point....no more rulers). But let them get back their authority in the classrooms.
Pay is one issue, but it is not the major one.
I know teachers who love the kids and find the job very rewarding, so much so, that they would do it "for free."
Unfortunately, those teachers are extremely rare these days, given the roadblocks that are put in their way right from the start:
I'm a teacher, but I REFUSE to teach in public schools. No amount of pay would be worth what I would have to put up with there.
You’ve got it!
Democrat vote strategy: give welfare checks to minorities in exchange for votes; give money to teachers in exchange for votes. Buy the election with tax dollars.
Considering how little substitutes usually get paid, I suspect this is intentional.
“Teacher salary vs doctors“
In a results based system given that comparison, modern-day teachers are worth something less than supermarket bag boys in terms of compensation.
What is the “teacher pay gap?”””
A MYTH.
My neighbor works as a TA. Teachers assistant. NO credentials. No education in any education courses. ZERO . Ran a cleaning business in the past.
She is paid over $28,000 a year PLUS Benefits for 9 months of work-—only less than 6 hours a day. About 1200 hours a year. Many days off with pay-—every possible holiday ever heard of-—with pay. Regular employment is 2040 hours a year., including holidays, etc.
I don’t call that underpaid.
I’d love to be a part time teacher when I retire. But that won’t happen for several reasons.
1. I don’t have the “educational requirements”. This is a laugh. It is well known that teachers on the whole duked it out with journalism students for having the worst SAT scores. My 40 years of business/people/ technical experience trumps your 30 hours of dummy classes with other dummies, including the professors.
2. Dicipline and grading on my terms.
Basically, the teaching profession is self protecting mediocracy.
TENURE is ONLY paid to teachers...
Not the Bank President.....
Not the US President.....
Not even the POPE !!!
Where I live the school bus drivers are in the teachers’ union and they get a pension when they retire.
The teaching profession is also professional incest ... teachers can only be certified by other teachers.
It would shock you how many teachers are not teaching. They plan their surgeries at the beginning of the school year to maximize getting paid for doing nothing.
The only "teacher pay crisis" is in states that have destroyed their own state budgets by kowtowing to do-nothing public employee unions (Illinois, and what a weird coincidence, Kameltoe's California). Forget it. Local control, local funding, abolish the D of Ed. Thanks Libloather.
The U.S. governments - local, state and federal combined - spend more than enough on education. What is not done well in K-12 public education is how spending is prioritized - to favor EDUCATION, or to favor the teachers unions, the ever growing class of “administrators”, non-teaching staff and “teachers assistants”.
Ms Harris proposal will only help insure that wasteful spending continues without check by providing unnecessary additional federal relief. With that additional relief in hand, K-12 education spending will continue to have any correction of its priorities.
So what is Ms Harris suggesting? She’s hoping to shore up the teachers’ unions’ support, because THEY, not “education” will be the greatest beneficiaries of her proposal.
Teachers work 9 months for a 12 month salary.
Even with the big summer check, many teachers were still pretty short of cash until the first paycheck of the next school year—again money management not being a strong suit of many teachers.
However, the summer off could be looked at as a seasonal layoff, but teachers were specifically excluded from drawing unemployment during the summer. In fact teachers are/were discouraged from claiming unemployment even when they are let go through no fault of their own with the threat “we will not recommend you for a teaching job if you claim unemployment benefits”. My wife was let go from her teaching job to make room for a school board member’s daughter and because she drew unemployment, she was pretty much blackballed.
In MO, teachers contribute 6.86% of their salary to the pension fund, with districts matching. One advantage is that the money in your account is yours unlike say Social Security.
I frankly never felt underpaid or overpaid for that matter—I was making about $40,000/year when I retired after 32 years. Now I realize that janitors for S.F.’s BART transit system may make 3 times as much, and teachers’ union reps in Illinois may make 10 times as much, but hey, I’m sure they’re worth every penny.
I have an idea let’s see what harebrained crazy stupid insane ideas that liberal Democrat presidential candidates can come up with
then let’s see how many did they actually state in the public?
On all Fonts we can see the effectiveness of our great and wonderful president Donald J Trump
On the college education scene which shirt liberal Marxist indoctrination camps you can see how he’s threatening to take away the money if they don’t allow free speech
In the K- 12 scene. it’s kind of hopeless there’s not much that can be done
but what we can count on is that kids don’t like being told what to think by adults
The teachers in AZ have been mobilized by the Democrats (Red for Ed).
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