Increasing Teacher Compensation

Parson: $40k baseline salary for MO teachers a top priority - KOMU

A major priority of it is to raise the baseline salary of Missouri teachers to $40,000, up from $38,000. Dan Haug is the state budget director ...

Senate education committee debates federal role in boosting ...

Lawmakers agreed in a Thursday hearing that improving teacher pay is a bipartisan matter, but were at odds on how to get there.

Elevating the Teaching Profession With Data-Driven Salary Increases

Elevating the Teaching Profession With Data-Driven Salary Increases · As students begin to head back to school, many classrooms in under- ...

Teacher salaries rarely reflect the importance of their job. Why don't ...

Research shows a direct correlation between teacher pay and student performance – a 10% pay increase is likely to lead to a 5-10% increase in student ...

Teachers to Congress: We Shouldn't Have to Work Second Jobs

The starting salary in 2022-23 was a 3.9 percent increase over 2021-22—the largest in the NEA's 14-year history of tracking teacher pay—but it ...

Raising public school teacher pay: What the research says

Academic studies indicate that when teacher earnings rise, public school districts and students can benefit in a range of ways.

Why not pay teachers $100000 a year? - The Washington Post

Raising teacher pay is also the rare 2024 policy proposal whose support spans the ideological divide. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has introduced ...

Teacher Salaries: A Key Factor in Recruitment and Retention

In February, the legislature passed a bill that increased base salaries by an average of 20% . The base salary for beginning teachers increased ...

What does the research say about the relationship between teacher ...

In general, studies have concluded that higher teacher pay increases the likelihood that a person will continue to teach. Similarly, attractive earnings ...

Missouri teachers deserve better pay and sufficient support

Mike Parson and Missouri lawmakers increases the minimum salary for some of Missouri's lowest-paid teachers, raising the minimum salary from ...

Getting Teachers to Stay by Getting Strategic About Pay - ASCD

State education leaders and other education advocates need to organize and pursue federal legislative action around increasing teacher pay. One ...

Raising the Bar on Teacher Pay | American Institutes for Research

Developed in collaboration with the Teacher Salary Project, this brief is intended to help these leaders consider whether the time is right ...

Legislative Tracker: 2023 Teacher-Pay Bills in the States - FutureEd

Massachusetts' H.D. 4224 would increase starting salaries for teachers to $65,000 and teacher aides to $40,000. The legislation would have the ...

Increasing Teacher Compensation: How Do We Foot the Bill?

Deciding Which Approach to Take to Increase Teacher Compensation · Identify the specific type of compensation you want to provide or increase.

Missouri House passes plan to boost teacher pay, maximum annual ...

The state House of Representatives has signed off on a package that would increase the minimum teacher salary from the current $25,000 to ...

Is Congress going to raise teachers' salaries to $60K? - ABC News

MORE: Most of the US is dealing with a teaching shortage, but the data isn't so simple. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders wants to go further. On ...

The teacher pay penalty has hit a new high - Economic Policy Institute

The average weekly wages of public school teachers (adjusted only for inflation) increased just $29 from 1996 to 2021, from $1,319 to $1,348 (in ...

Increasing Teacher Salaries is a School Funding Issue - New America

Lawmakers can promise increases, but how they ultimately play out for teachers will depend on the other state and local policies already governing school ...

Majority of adults support higher pay, more influence over curriculum ...

Some 66% of adults said teachers are underpaid, and 67% said they support raising educator salaries through increased property taxes, a PDK poll found.

Bill would raise starting salary for Missouri teachers - FOX4KC.com

A bill filed in the U.S. House of Representatives would raise minimum teacher starting pay to $60000 a year.