Sanders introduces bill to raise minimum teacher pay to $60,000 a year

[Uncle Joe]

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The Pay Teachers Act of 2023, co-sponsored by a number of lawmakers including Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.), would provide states with federal funds to establish minimum teacher salaries of at least $60,000 a year. It would also triple the funding of the Title I-A program, which provides funding to schools with a high percentage of students that come from low income backgrounds.

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The bill would also triple funding for rural education programs and prop up programs to diversify the teacher workforce.

The push from Sanders to boost public teacher pay comes after Biden included a call for raises for public educators in his State of the Union address last month.

“Any nation that out-educates is going to out-compete us,” Biden said in the speech. “Let’s give public school teachers a raise.”

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https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/3891898-sanders-introduces-bill-to-raise-minimum-teacher-pay-to-60000-a-year/

[OldBaldy1701E]

1. The rethug state legislators will just find a way to syphon off all that increase in Title I-A funds

Not to mention re-directing any finding to 'vouchers' or some other such money grab. If this is going to be meaningful, this needs to have all allotment distribution spelled out completely. Will this happen? Or will the House water it down so that the teachers are actually getting about a dollar a day raise?

[Meadowoak]

2. $60k you can live pretty comfortably in Alabama, not so much

In San Francisco, or Boston.