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3 responses to “The Wonk Salon, November 1, 2011”

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   RBV

   November 1, 2011

   “Teachers Paid 52% above Fair Market Value”

   Interesting.

   I wonder what the Fair Market Value is for administrators?

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2. 

   larryg

   November 1, 2011

   I wonder how that compares to European teachers who receive govt health care and pensions in addition to the salary?

   and don’t forget – European kids outperform our kids on core academic subjects.

   so what SOLUTION does Heritage actually call for?

   I’m all for privatization as long as they meet two criteria – the same criteria that public schools have to meet:

   1. – they must take all comers even the harder-to-teach demographics

   2. – they must use the same testing regimes and perform at least equivalently

   European teachers get health care and pensions – the two biggies that unions want in the US.

   What the Heritage folks are pushing is NO benefits for teachers – a race to the bottom.

   sooner or later the American people are going to catch on to what the Heritage folks are about which is keep taxes on the rich low but forcing everyone else who is not rich into the lowest paying no-benefits jobs.

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3. 

   Richard

   November 2, 2011

   Shocking! Another attack on public school teachers from the Heritage Foundation! According to the Heritage folk, public school teachers are not only overpaid, but grossly overpaid (by 52%)! The Heritage folk are flaks and their research is nothing more that right-wind progaganda. Laughable.

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