{"id":10203,"date":"2019-05-03T17:29:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T17:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=10203"},"modified":"2019-05-03T17:29:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T17:29:30","slug":"texas-teacher-shortage-linked-to-low-wages-oversized-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=10203","title":{"rendered":"Texas Teacher Shortage Linked to Low Wages, Oversized Classes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reduced investments in public education are linked to low teacher pay, oversized classes, fewer school librarians, nurses and counselors, deferred building maintenance, and out-of-date textbooks. Photo: Pxhere<\/p><\/div>\n

by Eric Galatas<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

AUSTIN, Texas \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Texas teachers earned more than 22 percent less in weekly wages than similar college graduates in 2018, after accounting for education, experience and other factors, according to a\u00a0new Economic Policy Institute report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Report co-author Sylvia Allegretto, an economist at the University of California, says that\u2019s a problem because more teachers are leaving the profession, and fewer college students are choosing a teaching career, in many cases because the pay isn\u2019t enough to cover their student loans.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of our highest ideals is to educate each and every kid regardless of means, and I think the teachers\u2019 strikes that we saw last year and this year are bringing attention to that failure,\u201d Allegretto states.<\/p>\n

Allegretto adds teacher shortages lead to class sizes that are too large, and lack of funding also means out-of-date textbooks, fewer school librarians, nurses and counselors, and deferred building maintenance.<\/p>\n

The report\u2019s release comes as the Texas Senate Education Committee is set on Thursday to consider\u00a0House Bill 3<\/a>, a school finance measure.<\/p>\n

Lawmakers consistently have pointed to tight budgets as the biggest challenge for fully funding public education.<\/p>\n

Allegretto argues that the only thing standing in the way of the richest nation in the world having the best public school system in the world is political will.<\/p>\n

She says when companies such as Amazon don\u2019t pay their fair share of taxes, and tax cuts are given to those who have taken in the largest share of wealth, state and local governments are put in a tough spot.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd what the result is, that there\u2019s a price to pay,\u201d she stresses. \u201cAnd the price to pay is public schools, public infrastructure. That\u2019s what happens when you don\u2019t have the tax base, but there\u2019s no reason that we couldn\u2019t have the tax base.\u201d<\/p>\n

Male teachers earn more than 30 percent less in weekly wages than similar college graduates, and predictably, fewer are entering a profession where three in four are women.<\/p>\n

Allegretto points to numerous reports of boys having trouble in school, and says one known remedy, having more men in schools, is not currently an option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Eric Galatas AUSTIN, Texas \u2013\u00a0Texas teachers earned more than 22 percent less in weekly wages than similar college graduates in 2018, after accounting for education, experience and other factors, according to a\u00a0new Economic Policy Institute report. Report co-author Sylvia Allegretto, an economist at the University of California, says that\u2019s a problem because more teachers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10205,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10203\/revisions\/10205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}