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| The Teachers’ Revolt Spreads to Arizona | |
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| PATruth | Apr 30 2018, 04:50 PM Post #41 |
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Change scares regressive people, don't worry, it will happen. |
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"No. No he won't. We'll stop it." | |
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| George Aligator | May 3 2018, 11:52 AM Post #42 |
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In Arizona and other states where teachers have recently gone on strike, pay is a central issue: the average American teacher earns five per cent less than he did in 2009. (In Arizona, the average teacher salary fell from fifty-three thousand to forty-seven thousand dollars in that time. Arizona schools are in crisis. Most of them have been closed for this week. Per-student spending has fallen fourteen per cent in the past decade, and some two thousand classrooms have no permanent instructors. Between 2010 and 2015, Arizona’s rate of teacher turnover was twenty-three per cent in traditional public schools and thirty-three per cent in charters. At Arizona’s three public universities, enrollment in undergraduate and graduate teaching programs has dropped by nearly twenty per cent since 2008. Over the same period, nationally, the number of college students majoring in education declined by fourteen per cent.
Edited by George Aligator, May 3 2018, 11:54 AM.
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| Conservatism is a social disease | |
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| Robert Stout | May 3 2018, 04:47 PM Post #43 |
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The States with the top teachers salaries have the highest home prices....At least in Alaska woods you can build your own log cabin and commute to work on a snowmobile.....I doubt that Students in Alaska have the highest academic scores in the country....Stop trying to compare apples to oranges....Arizona's teachers are spoiled rotten by the taxpayers as our cost of living is much lower than the highest paid States............. :oyvey |
| Jesus can raise the dead, but he can't fix stupid | |
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| George Aligator | May 3 2018, 05:38 PM Post #44 |
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Skip the insults and take a look at what Tony Cullen, the principal of Flag High, in Flagstaff is saying, “I just hired two science teachers, but one backed out because of housing costs. Two years ago, I hired a woman from New York. Once she saw the cost of living, she said no.” For the full story, see: https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/can-arizonas-teachers-still-consider-themselves-middle-class But who are you going to believe, an Arizona principal or some retired prison guard whose trolling one-liners are a disgrace to Perspectives? |
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| Robert Stout | May 3 2018, 07:00 PM Post #45 |
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You should beliieve a retired parole officer who lived and worked in Flagstaff for a couple years....Surprisingly Flagstaff has no shortage of school teachers....What do you know other than an article in the New York Times quoting a school administrator sniveling for Mo' money ??????.........
Edited by Robert Stout, May 3 2018, 07:01 PM.
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| George Aligator | May 3 2018, 07:18 PM Post #46 |
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I know the governor has caved and signed a budget with a 20% raise over three years. The union won. The union makes us strong. |
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| Robert Stout | May 3 2018, 07:24 PM Post #47 |
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The teachers professional associations are stronger than the taxpayers whose children were abandoned "home alone" by their teachers......... |
| Jesus can raise the dead, but he can't fix stupid | |
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