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http://www.epi.org/publication/the-teacher-pay-gap...ind-pay-of-comparable-workers/

I also object to your statement that we have more teacher work days. Yes, we have tons of them but what do you think we are doing during teacher work days? Not doing our own work. Out of the 10 or so we have every year, one of them is mine to do what I need to do in my classroom. One out of 10. The rest of them are non-stop meetings. Most of them are held at other schools not near my own school. I do my own work (lesson planning, grading, etc) in my own time. Even 2 or 3 out of 5 planning periods per week is taken up by meetings. Schools are run more like businesses these days so the testing gives us the constant streams of data. When do we crunch the numbers? During our planning periods.
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The publication you cite is a non-peer reviewed article.  It is based on averages for the whole country.  It does not take account of the supplemental pension benefits in FCPS.  These deficiencies make it worthless to support the assertion that FCPS teachers are underpaid.  Relative to the surrounding counties, FCPS teachers' total compensation exceeds all of them - and the Superintendent's budget is calling for an additional 6%+ raise.  Even in retirement, the ERFC benefit is increased every year by more than inflation (up to 3%).  New teachers will not have this benefit.  And note that the standard contract is for 194 days - approximately 80% of the time that most workers toil on an annual contract.  This is not to disparage teachers or their pay - good ones are worth a lot - but the facts should be clear in any discussion.  Note that Randi Weingarten  (President of the American Federation of Teachers) is on the Board of EPI,and approximately 30% of their funding comes from unions.  This report is advocacy - not a serious economic analysis - and certainly not accurate re: FCPS.[/quote]

Does the PP you quoted work for FCPS?[/quote]

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