Education Next With A Report On Teacher Pay….

The report starts off with an interesting chart right from the start. It shows that Lawyers and Doctors top off in salary way faster than a teacher does. The teacher does not peak until almost retirement age. It is a problem that is going to have to be fixed.

What the author of the report Jacob Vigdor wants to see is higher pay up front with smaller raises as the years go on. I want that too, but you also need a tough firing policy to get rid of the bad teachers though.

The report gets into detail on just the state of North Carolina. Under Jacob and his plan a teacher would earn at least 7 grand more per year to teach for a first year teacher. Under his plan a teacher over 30 years would make 682,000 vrs 620,000 under current North Carolina pay rules.

Imo his salary increases over time are just too small and need to be increased.

I am not so sure that his plan would fully work, but it is something to look at.