We can pay teachers more if we choose to invest in quality rather than quantity, educators rather than bureaucrats, and take-home pay rather than bloated benefit packages.
, that’s an attainable goal even without new funds. Let’s see how we might get there.Allow natural attrition to reduce the teaching force by 10 percent . Putting the savings into teacher salaries would increase pay by $10,000.
Trim the ranks of 400,000 school and district administrators by 20 percent. This would put the administrative body count back where it was during the Obama presidency, with administrative ranks still 25 percent larger than in 2000. Use the savings to fund 12-month lead teacher positions for one in six teachers, with salary and leave bumped accordingly.
Now, while this would push average teacher pay well over $100,000 in some states, there are others where it wouldn’t suffice. In those cases, new revenues may make sense, if used to fund a redesign rather than to subsidize the status quo.
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