America's teachers are getting significant pay raises from red state governors who are simultaneously bolstering parental rights in education and, in some cases, letting parents use their tax dollars for private schools.
It’s an unusual policy mix that gives Republican governors from Utah to Georgia a foothold on education issues that are popular with teachers and parents and, when it comes to pay increases, are typically dominated by Democrats.
The Sanders plan links the pay hikes, as well as other funding for education reform, with a host of conservative education policy proposals. Mrs. Sanders announced her education proposal a little more than a week after Utah’s Republican Gov. Spencer Cox signed a bill providing public school teachers with a $6,000 pay increase. The same measure gives qualifying parents $8,000 to cover the cost of private school if they choose to leave the public system.
“It is actually policy on pay and policy on what happens in our schools that are driving people out of the profession,” Mr. Spar said.
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