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Voters support higher pay for educators
05/19/2018A recent Associated Press poll found that 78 percent of Americans believe teachers deserve higher pay. And in Other polls show similar support. According to an April 26 NPR report, “(A)n NPR/Ipsos poll shows strong support among...Read More -
WA Supreme Court was clear: the new state funding is for higher pay
05/18/2018The Washington Supreme Court was clear that the additional state funding approved by the Legislature in March was specifically for educator pay raises. Last fall, the Court unanimously directed lawmakers to invest “a billion dollars in...Read More -
The educator pay gap is getting worse
05/17/2018An April 4 report from the Economic Policy Institute reported: “Teacher pay (accounting for inflation) actually fell…from 1996 to 2015, while pay for other college graduates increased…. In short, the teacher pay gap—the difference between what teachers...Read More