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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Base pay for teachers should be $70k year 1. Stipends for things like hard to fill positions (esol, sped, math), and for working in low income schools. Bonuses for 5 year retentions.

I used to teach in one of “those” schools and it is easily twice as hard as teaching at the UMC school. Compensate the teachers who choose that. A Fairfax county teacher should be able to make $100k teaching sped at Poe middle school 10 years into their career. If we want people to come, they have to be paid. Other careers pay.

[b]I honestly have no idea where the money would come from. [/b]I know the budget is always tight. But we have to find money somewhere or people are going to continue to leave because the economy says we value editing online content more than teaching kids to read and write.[/quote]

For starters, IDEA should be fully funded at the federal level. That was how it was sold when the law passed. SPED in my district is a huge part of the budget and most of that is funded locally. Obviously the students requiring services are legally entitled to them and should receive them but the brunt of funding those services should not fall mostly to the local districts. Free up that money and you could pay all teachers considerably more, which would also increase the number of people willing to enter the field or stay in it. [/quote]

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