With an average annual salary of slightly more
than $ 36,000 for new teachers and slightly more
than $ 58,000 overall, most teachers are compensated less
than they were 30 years ago, when adjusting for inflation.69 In addition, teachers earn 60 percent of what similarly educated professionals earn, which is much lower
than in
other Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development member countries.70 This has made it
harder for schools to attract young people to the teaching
profession and for high - need schools to attract excellent teachers.
We also work very
hard to make sure that our session speakers are diverse as well and so we will have — I think we are going to have parity right now between women and minorities and your kind of normal White male speakers that you see in a lot of
other conferences, because we want our conference to reflect legal
profession and we know that the legal
profession is more
than just any single type of person, just like there is no single type of law.