Capping Illinois teacher salaries will continue the shortage of quality teachers
Following up on yesterday’s post.
On April 11th Illinois State Senator Andy Manar succeeded in pushing a package of bills through the Senate. One raised the minimum teacher salary from $10,000 a year to $40,000 a year.
The average starting teacher salary in the Illinois is currently $39,000. The bill will take four years to reach the $40,000 minimum level.
Another Manar bill returned the cap on teacher wage increases to 6 percent after it was dropped to 3 percent in a bill Democrats passed and Rauner signed last year,
The bill repealing the 3% cap moved to the House where a similar bill had already been filed.
Both SB1952 and HB350 were assigned to the House Rules Committee where no hearings have been scheduled.
And that is where they will die.
There has been a lot of talk from some Illinois Democratic legislators about their concern with the state’s teacher shortage.
Central and southern Illinois have been hit the hardest and where the teacher pay CONTINUE READING:
