Are Public School Teachers Adequately Compensated?

Autor/in	Rentner, Diane Stark
Institution	George Washington University, Center on Education Policy (CEP)
Titel	Are Public School Teachers Adequately Compensated?
Quelle	(2019), (19 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Compensation (Remuneration); Teacher Salaries; Public School Teachers; Elementary Secondary Education; Public Schools; Economic Climate; Economic Factors; Public Education; Teacher Strikes; Financial Exigency; Budgeting; Retrenchment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Abfindung; Kompensation; Lohnausgleich; Lehrerbesoldung; Lehrervergütung; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Wirtschaftslage; Ökonomischer Faktor; Öffentliche Erziehung; Lehrerstreik; Finanzielle Härte
Abstract	The spring 2018 teacher strikes or walkouts in West Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Colorado, Arizona, and North Carolina brought heightened attention to teacher compensation. Similar walk-outs, sick-outs, or strikes occurred early 2019 in Denver, Los Angeles, and Oakland, as well as West Virginia and Kentucky. In all of these actions, teachers were quoted in the media saying that education was being underfunded. Teachers not only pressed for salary increases, but also for more state support for K-12 education. It is difficult to definitively answer the question of whether public school teachers are adequately compensated. In a capitalist economy, so the theory goes, individuals who are "better" at their vocations and possess higher human capital stock are rewarded by the labor market more than others (Becker, 1993). However, public sector workers' salaries are limited by available resources and other restrictions. For example, teacher salaries are often subject to salary schedules that increase pay with more years of service, and those salaries are further limited by available public funds. To provide context for understanding the research on the adequacy of teacher compensation, this policy brief first describes how the public K-12 education system is funded and discusses the impact of the Great Recession. The brief then highlights policy research that examines whether teachers are adequately compensated. The author has focused this issue brief on more recent analyses of teacher compensation since the Great Recession had a large impact on state and local tax revenues, which in turn impacted teacher compensation. Readers should keep in mind that the studies presented here discuss average teacher salaries in each of the 50 states. Within states, the amount of compensation varies greatly from district to district, school to school, and even within schools. [This report was written with assistance from Matthew Braun.] (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01