Post by Logan on Feb 8, 2016 2:15:13 GMT -6
One would have thought, when Republican lawmakers raised starting teacher pay in North Carolina to $35,000, that they’d marched into classrooms in North Carolina with sacks of gold and silver. Of course, that salary is hardly a king’s ransom, and teachers with more experience didn’t fare so well. The state remains in the bottom half of the country in teacher compensation.
Teachers also are skeptical of these GOP lawmakers, who have so cheated public education at all levels and undermined conventional public schools with a too-rapid expansion of charter schools and public “scholarships” for children in private schools.
So it should come as no surprise that enrollment in the 15 schools of education in the public university system has dropped – by 30 percent since 2010.
This forecasts a deepening teacher shortage in North Carolina, one that will impact tens of thousands of families.
Read more here: www.newsobserver.com/opinion/editorials/article58519968.html
Teachers also are skeptical of these GOP lawmakers, who have so cheated public education at all levels and undermined conventional public schools with a too-rapid expansion of charter schools and public “scholarships” for children in private schools.
So it should come as no surprise that enrollment in the 15 schools of education in the public university system has dropped – by 30 percent since 2010.
This forecasts a deepening teacher shortage in North Carolina, one that will impact tens of thousands of families.
Read more here: www.newsobserver.com/opinion/editorials/article58519968.html