Will higher pay lure more teachers? Bill aims to boost salaries 50% by 2030

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Proposed legislation to attract and keep teachers in public schools would boost California teachers’s pay 50% by 2030.

So did Florida, where average public schoolteacher pay is $51,230. Texas, where average pay is $58,887, also had better 8th grade math scores than California last year, though reading scores were lower.private schoolteacher pay, which ZipRecruiter.com reports to be $34,198 statewideTeacher salaries are negotiated by individual districts and vary widely by region and the employee’s years of experience.

“California’s academic excellence for the amount of money we pay into the system is absolutely abysmal,” said Lance Christensen, who lost an election challenge last fall to state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond and is vice president of education policy at the nonprofit California Policy Center, a group critical of public-sector union influence. “Raising salary sounds great, but there’s no performance requirement tied to these things.

The bill’s proposed pay increases wouldn’t be limited to teachers in particularly hard-to-fill roles such as special education. In fact, it wouldn’t be limited to teachers at all — all school staff except for administrators, which would include bus drivers, cafeteria workers and custodians, would benefit, Muratsuchi said.

The proposed 50% raises by 2030 would average more than 7% annually over the next seven years, roughly twice as much as a typical 3.5% annual increase. That would boost average California teacher pay to $130,000 in 2030, $22,000 more than the $108,000 it would reach with the average salary increases given now.

 

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