"In An Election Year, North Carolina Republicans Flog A Phony 'Teacher Raise'"

In An Election Year, North Carolina Republicans Flog A Phony 'Teacher Raise'

by Steve Singiser at the Daily Kos

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/05/30/1302968/-In-an-election-year-North-Carolina-Republicans-flog-a-phony-teacher-raise

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This fall, when North Carolina's embattled GOP legislative majority begins their respective bids for re-election, Tar Heel State voters will undoubtedly be inundated with ads hailing the GOP legislature for fighting for "huge increases in teacher pay."

And, indeed, the budget plan approved in committee by the state Senate does propose a salary increase of over 11 percent.


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While Republicans promoted the budget for offering veteran teachers pay raises above 10 percent, they also had to find the $468 million to fund the raises. They made line-item cuts totaling $390 million, of which more than half came from reducing funds that school districts could otherwise use to hire 7,400 teacher assistants.

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The pay raises, announced Wednesday before the budget’s release, would give an 11.2 percent average increase for veteran teachers, but only for those who voluntarily give up their tenure. Those who don’t would be left on the current salary schedule with little or no pay raise, Republicans said.



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