Public Schools Pay Teachers 50% Above Market, Heritage Analysis Finds

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Originally Posted by classicman

Also, Pennsylvania requires that certified teachers at a minimum have a bachelor’s degree and have completed an approved program of teacher education.
So lets be careful before we start saying they need MBA's or PhD's.

Let's be more careful reading what was written before misrepresenting it. Many stated require masters. For example, New Jersey teachers can get a job only with a bachelors. But are required to obtain a masters after so many years. That requirement was first implemented in the late 1970s.

In a state where so many teachers have a masters, New Jersey has one of the nation's more successful education systems. But the average salary is listed at only $61,000. Teachers with so many years of experience are paid less than an MBA with zero years experience? Did the Heritage Foundation forget to include these numbers by accident?

Nobody said an administrator 'needs' an PhD. But superintendents routinely have PhDs. Please read what was posted before misrepresenting it.

Why does the Heritage Foundation claim teachers are overpaid? Preaching myths to wacko extremists. Making claims devoid of facts or numbers.

The topic is not teacher’s salaries. The topic is how wacko extremists invent bogeymen for political purposes. A trend is obvious. Teachers are not overpaid. Why did the Heritage Foundation decide to paint teaches as greedy and evil? Hate gets the least educated to support wacko extremism.

If the Heritage Foundation was honest, then their paper would have included all those above numbers.