[Vision2020] Paper on the Teachers' Salary Grid

[Ron Force]

On the other hand, the publication "School Finance,Trends and Issues" (ED459
541), U.S. Department of Education, 2001, states that: "Teacher salaries,
comprising over 60 per cent of most school budgets, did not keep pace with
inflation during the 1990's... Their salaries actually declined 1 per cent
(in inflation adjusted dollars) between 1989 and 1996. Only recently are
they regaining their 1990 level."

Guess it's where you start the statistic keeping. Teachers did gain
substantially in the 1980s.

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Ron Force	      	  rforce@moscow.com
Moscow Idaho USA
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: vision2020-admin@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-admin@moscow.com]On
> Behalf Of Dale Courtney
> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 11:58 AM
> To: 'Vision 2020'
> Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Paper on the Teachers' Salary Grid
>
>
> Debbie pointed out:
> > And another article at:
> > http://www.aft.org/research/survey99/figures.html which
> > discusses a variety of topics such as 'the share
> > of teachers salary as a percentage of school budgets is the
> > lowest in 30 years'. What does that throw into the debate?
>
> Debbie, this is a *very* interesting site!
>
> Among other things that the American Federation of Teachers
> (AFL-CIO) notes
> is:
> 1. Since 1986, the teachers salaries have been consistently above the
> inflation-adjusted amount.
> 2. Since 1986, 9 of the 12 years have had inflation-adjusted salary
> increases as much as 2% above the CPI each year!
> 3. The teacher's salary increases have *significantly* outpaced the
> "Government Workers" and "all other workers" since 1957. And
> that's *every*
> year.
> 4. Engineers, Computer Programmers, Mathematicians, and Chemists are paid
> more (gasp!).
>
> I'm amazed that anyone would say that the government school teachers have
> not had their unions take *really* good care of them during the last 50
> years!
>
> Best,
> Dale Courtney
> Moscow, Idaho
>
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