Pay for teachers falls tragically short in the Sunflower State amid tighter budgets and even more proposed cutbacks to classrooms. Checkit: Salaries of Kansas Teachers Lagging Behind Cost Of Living
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wages thruout the u.s. aren't keeping up with inflation. why should teachers be any different?
ReplyDeleteTeacher's salaries in Missouri are generally lower than Kansas. Do your own research, but it seems to me this was a hit piece.
ReplyDeleteThere is that 3-month vacation, though. That's still nice.
ReplyDeleteEveryone always thinks they make less. I clicked on the link to the referenced
ReplyDeletestudy and now wonder if the author has an agenda or did not read the study.
This data indicates that, in terms of the ratio of average teacher salaries to
average non‐teacher salaries, Kansas is:
Mostly in line with the national average.
Mostly in line with states with better student outcomes than ours.
Mostly in line with states with the most similar student demographics and population characteristics.
Usually higher than adjacent states.
...so the author's sister is a teacher in Kansas......
ReplyDeleteMore whining by the Kansas teachers union. There are three guarantees in Kansas: death, taxes and incessant KNEA whining each March. It happens every year, no matter which party is in charge, and is 100X worse when there is a Republican governor.
ReplyDeleteHere's the math: you only have $X to spend each year. Teachers want to spend $X + whatever they want...and want YOU to pay for it. KNEA needs to realize that crying wolf each and every year only makes people call you Chicken Little. It got old a decade ago. Now it is just pathetic.
Let's get realistic. How much education does anyone need to work in a state where most people make minimum wage and the few "good" jobs outside the big cities pay $15 an hour? Shit public schools work just fine for Alabama and Mississippi. They will work for post-Brownback Kansas too.
ReplyDeleteThe entire middle class makes 6% less over the Obama years than they did when he took office. My elders have always told me education has more money than they need. I was suspicious but after reading Missouri Education Salaries database, provided by St Louis Post Dispatch, I am convinced they have way too much money.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.stltoday.com/news/local/education/missouri-educator-salaries/html_97ee146b-288e-573d-9130-acfaa407c3f9.html?appSession=165178606939558