WISCONSIN GOVERNOR DELIVERS A BLOW TO TEACHERS WHO HOLD MASTER’S DEGREES
This Wisconsin governor is UNBELIEVABLE ! Gov. Scott Walker has reshaped a rule to lower inflation-based raises that public unions can negotiate for teachers in public schools. The rule change wouldn’t use an individual’s actual salary as a “base salary” to calculate raises and would exclude factors such as a teacher’s higher degree.
For instance, a teacher with a master’s degree might make $45,000 a year, while a teacher in the same district with a bachelor’s degree might make $35,000. A 3.2 percent cost of living raise on $45,000 would be $1,440 – or more than $300 more than the same raise on $35,000. Under the new rule, the teacher with the master’s degree would have his or her raise CALCULATED OFF THE $35,000 INSTEAD OF THE ACTUAL PAY !
Yes, come to Wisconsin all you would be teachers, we welcome you. Just don’t expect to be rewarded much for your advanced degree. Governor Walker should initiate an official state poem similar to the one about the Statue
For instance, a teacher with a master’s degree might make $45,000 a year, while a teacher in the same district with a bachelor’s degree might make $35,000. A 3.2 percent cost of living raise on $45,000 would be $1,440 – or more than $300 more than the same raise on $35,000. Under the new rule, the teacher with the master’s degree would have his or her raise CALCULATED OFF THE $35,000 INSTEAD OF THE ACTUAL PAY !
Yes, come to Wisconsin all you would be teachers, we welcome you. Just don’t expect to be rewarded much for your advanced degree. Governor Walker should initiate an official state poem similar to the one about the Statue
