Not exact matches
A 2008 paper by Sylvia Allegretto, Sean Corcoran, and Lawrence Mishel presents a 14.1 percent
wage correction for «summers off» based on 188 work
days, 9 paid holidays, and 15.6 paid vacation
days in a school year; 15 percent of
teachers working in summer school; and nonteacher college graduates averaging a paid work year of 51 weeks (based on March CPS tabulations).
The new
teacher contract, announced Thursday by Mayor Bill de Blasio, includes
wage increases and back pay, a streamlined
teacher evaluation process and time built into the school
day for professional development and parent engagement.
Perhaps the most respected study to date, conducted by researchers Jason Richwine and Andrew Biggs (in which they account for all variables — including the fact that
teachers work on average for 180
days, while private industry workers toil for 240 - 250
days) found that workers «who switch from non-teaching jobs to teaching jobs receive a
wage increase of roughly 9 percent, while
teachers who change to non-teaching jobs see their wages decrease by approximately 3 percent.»
With a $ 500 stipend for three
days and additional virtual collaboration hours plus the summer CCS lollapalooza
day each
teacher will make less than the new minimum
wage requirements recommended by the Malloy admin.
The arguments against a living
wage for
teachers — they get the summers off, they have a six - hour
day, and so on — are tired, damaging, and based on false information.