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Bill proposes $1,000 increase in Mississippi teacher pay
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi legislators are making their opening bids on an increase in teacher pay, although there may be sweeter offers to come.
The House Education Committee on Thursday passed House Bill 1349 , which proposes $500 increases in teacher salaries for each of the next two years, for a total of $1,000.
That would boost the starting pay for a teacher with a bachelor's degree from $34,390 now to $35,390 beginning July 1, 2020.
The bill is sponsored by Republican Rep. Charles Busby of Pascagoula. It would also boost the long-frozen salaries of assistant teachers from $12,500 to $13,500 over the same two-year period.
Read more: http://www.wlbt.com/2019/02/01/bill-proposes-increase-mississippi-teacher-pay/
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For record, teaching should be the highest paid profession anywhere, especially above investors and property owners and other parasites on worker productivity. What could possibly be more important to our future and the well-being of our children than a good education. We should be treating teachers as some of the most important people in our culture. But we don't. Why? Republicans, of course.
