In addition, districts usually adjust
the actual salary levels as well.
Learning
the actual salary levels had little impact on the thinking of teachers themselves, over three - quarters (76 percent) of whom continue to back the idea.
Once again, we can not attribute the change to better knowledge of
actual salary levels, as average estimates of salary levels remain essentially unchanged at $ 36,428, about $ 20,000 below actual average salaries in the states where respondents live.
Not exact matches
We asked about teacher
salaries at the
level of the state, rather than the specific district, because that is the lowest
level of aggregation for which information on
actual salaries is readily available nationwide.
Not surprisingly, perhaps, board members who are or were educators (27 percent of the total surveyed) believe that funding is a barrier and that the focus on student achievement is misplaced; these beliefs were held «regardless of the
actual level of funding in the district,» «regardless of the
actual teacher
salaries» in the district, and «even after controlling for the type of student population that the district serves and the
actual rigor of academic standards» in the district.
Collect and report per - pupil school -
level funding and expenditures including
actual and median teacher
salaries.