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Votes: 3 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 19, 2004 - 8:18 am: | 
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See, generally:
For an overview, see:
See, also:- Data on living costs and wages from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (It’s the most comprehensive but not organized for easy comparisons).
- Average annual teacher salaries (from Stateline.org)
- Where did my raise go?
- Superintendent taking 5% pay cut
- Cut my pay [by $20,000], not my class, teacher asks
- Teachers' pay on hourly basis tops many professions, study finds
- NEA data on teacher salaries & per-pupil spending
- Survey: Average teacher salary up slightly
- Oklahoma ranks 47th in teacher pay
- City leads in school administrative costs
- Senate Eyes More Goodies for Teachers
- What teachers should earn
- High Teacher Pay Doesn't Result in High Achievement
- Are teachers paid too much?
- The truth about teacher salaries
- $100,000 Teachers (with local salary analysis and Louisiana teacher pay)
- Florida schools seek end to raise guarantee
- Maryland school board can deny step and cost-of-living raises agreed to in contracts
- Minimum wage hardly a good deal
- Burnt Hills Salary Increases Under 3% from 2002 to 2005
- Raises too extravagant in Schenectady schools
- Controlling costs through better contracts
- Virginia Administration Costs
- School budgets and salaries: Much pain, no gain
- Mesa (AZ) teachers agree to 1.4% salary increase
- Niskayuna teachers will make $82,501 by 2005-06 with amplification
- 2003 Shenendehowa, NY & Juneau, Alaska Contracts
- What a 3% COLA over 5 years would mean for S-G teachers
- 1953 Schenectady Teacher Salaries
- More than 5,100 military families are on food stamps. (2001) to show the relative need for increasing the salaries of others, plus see a list of underpaid workers in Family court attorneys are shamefully underpaid
- 30% pay cut to keep school open to show the extent to which some teachers are willing to go to make pay concessions
- One in six employees too busy to take time off, survey says to highlight the value of school breaks and vacations
- Albany diocesan schools, which don't receive public tax dollars, start their teachers in the mid-$20,000s and top out in the mid-$40,000s.
- The Hourly Wages of Public School Teachers
- The Salary Fallacy: Low salaries are not a significant factor in deciding whether to leave teaching
- Teacher starting salaries on par with private industry
- NY Teacher Salaries Move Up to 2nd Place
- Idaho teacher pay
- Utah: No cost-of-living increases, but class sizes grow
- AZ: Scottsdale board cuts teacher pay $300-$550
- D.C. Schools Cancel Raises For Next Year
- Newbury teachers, staff say no thanks to raise
- Mentor teachers OK givebacks
- Teachers need Economics 101
- Oregon Super takes voluntary 18% pay/benefits cut
- Oregon teachers agree to 10 unpaid work days with 1% raise
- Ohio teachers to pay 10% of salaries for pensions
- Arizona teachers get raises,less cash
- Conn. school chief seeks union concessions
- L.A. School Board Budget Asks for Concessions
- Raises, and No Concessions, in NYC Principals' New Contract
- Teachers' early retirement fails kids
- Teachers tapping incentives to retire
- The bottom line for teachers unions
- Indiana superintendent turns down raise
- Louisiana Superintendent turns down bigger raise
- Bloated administration costs
- Illinois can't afford pricey school administrators
- Enfield, CT administrators make compensation concessions
- If you put money first, stay out of education
- NY teachers’ pay safe from cuts (Highland district in Ulster County only NY school to eliminate raise to save jobs, programs & services).
- Salary doesn’t have anything to do with teaching
- Teacher contract proposal has escape clause
- The high cost of education (plus recession protection clause)
- Freeze wages of administrators, teachers (plus recession protection clause)
- Comparison with Mesa, Arizona
- Comparison with Slinger, Wisconsin
- Comparison with South Madison, Indiana
- Comparison with Shelbyville, Indiana
- Comparison with Belmont, Massachusetts
- Comparison with North Reading, Massachusetts
- Kansas and New York Compared
And while you're thinking about it, please consider that the average teacher, according to the AFT, earned $43,250 during the 2000–01 school year for teaching fewer hours in smaller classes. The average teacher works about 44 hours a week for about 37 weeks a year.
Work may include field trips, showing movies, assemblies, pep rallies, having students teach the material, recreational reading, listening to students present projects and papers, and moderating cafeteria-style classroom feelings fests, also known as discussions.
Work ranges from teaching the alphabet and running gym classes to teaching calculus, physics and chemistry and working with the complex issues of special education students.
Finally, whatever else you might want to say about teachers' jobs--parent conferences, chaperoning, meetings, grading papers, preparing lessons, managing the classroom and taking The Teacher's Side--work typically does not require out-of-town travel or absence from the home when children are home after school or on school breaks and vacations. That has to be worth something.
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