May 5, 2022, by In the new budget, lawmakers put $56 million into the opportunity scholarship grant reserve and expanded income eligibility to 200% of the amount students need to qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The infusion of money for teacher salaries and education is part of Lees plan to overhaul Tennessee education funding. With an average teacher salary of $48,984, a 6% pay raise would mean an extra $2,939.04/year for teachers. As currently written, the plan would eliminate state-approved teacher pay schedules and instead make school districts responsible for enacting employee pay schedules. Athena Lindsey, a teacher and policy fellow with Teach Plus Mississippi, repeatedly heard the same concern when surveying teachers in the lead-up to the
Five teachers interviewed by Mississippi Today expressed growing frustration with the rising costs and falling benefit quality. A lot of jobs are offering coverage for dependents already, and a lot of times teachers leave to take those jobs, so we thought this could be a way to make the teaching profession more competitive with others and keep teachers in the classroom, he said. I think what we did is we looked at what the requirements are for funding public education in North Carolina and we appropriated dollars to do that, he said. Starting teacher pay will increase from $37,123 to $41,638, The bill also includes funding for three new Cooperative Innovative High Schools. Athena Lindsey, a teacher and policy fellow with Teach Plus Mississippi, repeatedly heard the same concern when surveying teachers in the lead-up to the
state budget for teacher and school employee Lets say you have a teacher who has 15 years experience and in 2022-23 was making $52,000 a year. The narrative has to advance to say that were competitive at a regional, as well as a national level.. Some top lines for K-12 education include: The money for the proposed raise for teachers received some of the loudest applause of the night. Boren said she would not single out Mississippi as struggling in this area, but pointed to Alabama, Virginia, and Florida as exemplar states that have successfully kept costs down for employees. Mississippi is one of two states in the Southeast that doesnt pay any extra towards premiums for family coverage, according to figures compiled by the Mississippi Department of Finance and Administration that were presented at a 2021 hearing. Nobody heres doing it for the money.
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