Where We Propose Raising Minimum Teacher Salaries

Where We Propose Raising Minimum Teacher Salaries

Where We Propose Raising Minimum Teacher Salaries

by Bill Tucker

Since a Diane Ravitch tweet about our our 2007 paper, “Frozen Assets: Rethinking Teacher Contracts Could Save Billions for School Reform,” is going viral on a holiday weekend, I want to make sure nobody enjoying a few days off misses out.

Here’s Ms. Ravitch’s tweet:

@DianeRavitch Diane Ravitch

Saving school $$$ by cutting teacher salaries & pensions, spending instead on “reform.” Unbelievable: tinyurl.com/3eryd4o

Here’s what we propose in the paper:

But many common provisions of teacher contracts require school districts to spend substantial sums to implement policies which research has shown have a weak or inconsistent relationship