77 Billion Bucks Can be Saved….

per year if school districts cut some provisions in teacher contracts.  The Education Sector looked at eight provisions such as seniority pay, retirement benefits, health care, class-size provisions, just to name a few.

They say that increasing salary based on years of experience is not good because a teacher is going to plateau on how well they can perform in a classroom.  They say that having a masters degree does not mean that classroom performance is better. They also say that teachers get generous healthcare and retirement benefits.

The total cost which they admit is a conservative estimate is around 19% of school budgets nation wide.