Better pay, lower health care costs and improved working conditions and training for teachers should be prioritized to ensure Texas hires and keeps enough educators, a report from the state’s Teacher Vacancy Task Force says.
A state task force recommended better pay and more resources to fix Texas teacher shortage in a report released Friday.
“Salaries have not kept up with recent inflation, and pay disparities continue to exist across the state,” the authors wrote. “For example, there is an $8,998 pay gap between median beginner teacher salaries in suburban areas versus median beginner teacher salaries in rural areas.” “The [task force] recommends strategies to address indirect compensation, recognizing that costs such as healthcare and childcare should also be prioritized as critical areas that impact overall teacher pay,” the reports states.
The report also stressed an emphasis on improving access to high-quality instructional materials, which would reduce the time teachers spend searching for materials on their own. It also said that, to improve working conditions, school districts and lawmakers should take note of the extra, unpaid hours educators dedicate to the profession to make workloads more manageable for teachers.
“Ensuring that the time study results are utilized to adjust schedules and duties so that the job requirements imposed on teachers can be reasonably accomplished in a normal 40-hour work week is essential,” the report notes.
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