Mitigating Nurse, Teacher and Police Officer Shortages in Virginia – An Illustrative Example
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34 responses to “Mitigating Nurse, Teacher and Police Officer Shortages in Virginia – An Illustrative Example”
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Your suggestions have merit. In fact, there used to be a program for teacher scholarships, to be repaid with teaching one year for each year’s scholarship. But, you took the easy way. To pay for it, you said, in effect, “Find the money somewhere in the budget.” In effect, cut some other programs. It doesn’t work that way. You need to identify areas in which the cuts are to take place. I have one candidate for over $200 million per year–the HB 599 program, Item 410 in the final budget bill.
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The Governor should find them, not me. I don’t have enough information.
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It is easy to propose spending. Identifying the source of that spending is another question. Surely, you have some programs that you think are not needed or are overfunded.
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ABC stores. Sell them and charge annual licensing fees to replace the net revenue to the state. But I favor that having absolutely nothing to do with this proposal.
You propose a game of inside baseball that I refuse to play.
I have already identified the source of the funding – current expenditures.
It is up to the Governor and the GA to reshape those budgets to accommodate what I offer as higher priorities if they accept them, not you or me. If everything in those budgets is higher priority than this proposal, so be it.
If that proves too hard for them, then so is representative government.
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Just saw you used the word cut. I am proposing no cuts, just targeting of existing funds.
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yes, but when you say “target” without more overall funding, don’t you really mean more money for one thing and essentially divert it from other existing spending?
It’s really two things.
new program
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We already spend the money on these programs, Larry. This is just filling in the blanks on what it is spent for. The same amount of money will be spent on education, health care and law enforcement. I offer this as a more effective way to spend some of it. I propose no
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If you add a NEW program to the budget and don’t increase the budget, where does the money come from for the new program? Are you not advocating a re-jiggering of the budget?
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Scholarships for education degrees at state institutions seems reasonable. Instead of giving tuition discounts/scholarships to people getting gender studies degrees, they should be incentivizing the things the state actually needs for a productive society.
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I say GY should consider graduating early all education majors that would be interested in the thousands of current teaching vacancies. Grant them some special license. Pay them to teach, pay off some loan debt, and give them 3 years to complete the degree. Count the real experience in place of student teaching. VCU alone graduated nearly 600 education majors in 2020. So we have an immediate pool of candidates. Not a long term solution though. If I was in my last year of college I would take this deal.
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Shortages only get worse in future if not addressed structurally. That is what I have tried to do here on the new supply side.
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It would address the immediate crisis. Public schools are simply trying to survive one year at a time now. I do like your long term approach. Maybe something like this can be acted upon.
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My impression is that local school districts set their salaries – not the state, right?
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Larry, this is about vouchers for college for new teacher supply.
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where does the money for this new program come from?
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It appears to me that each school district has their own salary scales and positions with stipends.
Does not look like a State approach that , for instance, WOULD provide incentives LIKE paying off student loans or filling high-demand slots, etc.
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Make them teachers that report directly to the state and pay them on some new scale.
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so a big change from existing… let the State take over and bear responsibility for whether it works or not?
What you’re saying and what Sherlock is saying is not small changes – but BIG changes.
When I read the new VDOE chiefs “report” – she lays out in chapter and verse the “gap” but then almost nothing specific as to what she or Youngkin would do.
Sherlock wants big changes, really massive changes to the way VDOE has been doing business.
Does Youngkin?
Is this what Lab schools might be about?
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Good thing America did not dither after December 7th.
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or 911?
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After December 7th we finished the job. 9/11? I don’t think so.
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It’s odd that Sherlock is by most measures a rock-rib Conservative but he see’s govt as integral to solutions – and, in fact, needs to tax people to pay for higher raises – something most Conservatives would rather bit their tongues rather than utter such blasphemy.
I’d also point out that localities do have the option of paying higher wages for cops and teachers without relying on the State. Having the govt get involved in nurses pay seems problematic to me – I’d hate to see tax dollars go to pay for nurses myself. Perhaps the state might provide incentives instead?
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Where do you see higher spending in this proposal?
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” it seems clear that targeting money to recruit new ”
are you talking about the state doing this or the locality or what? Are you advocating new areas of spending but not more funding of it?
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State budget as written, Larry. Targeting existing expenditures, not new money. Read it again.
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new program in existing budget, right?
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Localities paying higher wages shuffles teachers around. It doesn’t create more new ones as assuredly as the program I recommend.
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Like School Boards and School administrators don’t know how to do it and you want to put someone in charge of them so the budgets get done “right”? Where would this person come from if not local?
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On teachers, I’ve often wondered if we should pay higher wages to teachers that specialize in teaching economically disadvantaged kids and are good at it.
My understanding is that – that is verboten.
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It is not.
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When I look at the salary charts, I only see years of service and education level… I don’t see special rates for certain kinds of teaching. Like for instance, even special education.. perhaps you have seen some examples where there are special rates for teaching special ed or economically disadvantaged?
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Larry, please read the article again. It has nothing to do with teacher salaries.
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are you talking about teachers pay?
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Maybe being forced to mask all day has something to do with it. At Eastern State Hospital it does.
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