Stein highlights teacher raises and recruitment programs in new state budget
Gov. Josh Stein highlighted an 8% average teacher-pay increase, a 17% starting-pay increase and new educator-recruitment programs included in North Carolina’s budget.
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John Hood: Sweat the details on teacher pay
The General Assembly ought to enact big pay increases for educators in North Carolina’s public schools. In the context of soaring prices, strong revenue collections, tight labor markets, and persistent vacancies in key teaching positions, it’s the right thing to do.
There is no teacher-pay penalty
Are nurse anesthetists overpaid by 74%? Are telemarketers underpaid by 25%? If you accept the standard statistical model used to defend huge and sweeping pay raises for public schoolteachers, then you pretty much have to accept these conclusions, too. They derive from the same set of data.