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Sunday, June 3, 2012

Jersey Jazzman: Teacher Salaries Rising? Not!

Jersey Jazzman: Teacher Salaries Rising? Not!:


Teacher Salaries Rising? Not!

John Mooney is he best education reporter in Jersey, and NJ Spotlight is the best education news source in the state. But every now and then...
Nonetheless, the financial statistics certainly reflected the tough times that schools faced in 2010-2011, still reeling from the administration and Legislature’s deep cuts in state aid the year before.
Total cost per pupil for K-12 districts dropped to $17,469, from $17,885 the year before. In turn, the ratio of students to faculty rose, especially with administrators where there were close to 190 students for each supervisor.
Still salaries didn’t appear to much slow, with the average teacher salary rising slightly to $63,800, with 10 years experience, and $119,500 for administrators, with 19 years.
There are a few of problems with this:

#1: Go back two years to the massacre of 2010 - in many ways, that was the impetus for me to start this blog. Who got cut? The younger, less-well-paid teacher. This is, of course, the reformy whine: the older, burned-out,