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Professionalizing Teaching and Winning the Salary Wars
‘Grand bargain’ would feature higher pay and increased accountability.
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Teacher Salaries, Benefits, and Incentives All Leading to Strike Talk in Denver
Debate is focused on a pay-for-performance program but benefit costs loom in the background.
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Los Angeles Teachers Strike a Deal, But Miss an Opportunity
Every California teacher could see an immediate pay boost of $10,250 per year, if not for the state's massive pension debt. Yet the Los Angeles teacher strike deal kicks the can on that crucial issue.
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Why Los Angeles Teachers May Strike
From 2001 to 2016, the Los Angeles Unified School District increased overall spending by 55.5 percent, but employee benefit costs soared 138 percent.
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Sketching a Workable Way Forward on Teacher Pay
There's a win-win solution to teacher compensation. But it requires a willingness to rethink how teachers are paid and how school dollars are spent.
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Straight Up Conversation: Nat Malkus on What’s Next for Teachers’ Unions After Janus
Nat Malkus is a resident scholar in education policy at AEI.
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Both Teachers and the Public Back Janus Decision by Supreme Court
When it comes to agency fees, the nays have it by a clear majority. No less than 56% of the general public and 54% of public school teachers are opposed.
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Of Teacher Strikes, Inigo Montoya, and Claims of ‘Justice’
When everyone starts hitching their competing agendas to the siren call of "justice," public decisions morph into a carnival of clashing absolutes. This makes it harder to find common ground.
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Teacher Strikes Morph from Pocketbook Clash to Partisan Street Theater
The teacher strikes have quickly gone from a plucky fight over paychecks to an increasingly polarizing progressive crusade over tax and spending policy.
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