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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This is another democrat who says we need to pay more so we can hire competent teachers instead of the current incompetent ones.
Teachers get awesome public pensions and free sex with your kids.
Id say these offset any imaginary gap democrats have concocted.
“This is another democrat who says we need to pay more so we can hire competent teachers instead of the current incompetent ones.”
And where would those competent teachers come from?
Actually in Florida, you can be a substitute teacher with a high school degree. However the pay is 60 dollars a day. A PhD is 125 a day. The rest are in between.
According to the figures I saw, average teacher pay in my state is not great, but it’s better than many jobs....some of which call for very specialized training. I think if teachers are unhappy with the situation, it would be more because of working conditions. They have to deal with undisciplined kids. They have to work under rules that go against their principles. They have to deal with teaching things that are more indoctrination than education. Rid the job of these problems & then the pay looks better.
harris is simply trying to buy the teacher vote ...
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