Over at her substack, Anne Lutz Fernandez has an excellent piece entitled "Yes, What We Pay Teachers Matters." Like most everything Fernandez writes, it is absolutely on target (you should be subscribing to her if you don't already) and I just want to underline it, then wave my arms and holler "And furthermore...!"
Austerity is harmful in so many ways, including that after long enough with austerity policies, people become convinced that it actually isn't possible to coordinate/pay for public goods.
There needs to be a “1000% this” emoji for this article.
An interesting exercise is to look at starting and average pay in a district as it compares to the states eligibility for free and reduced lunch.
Yes - yes - 1000 times yes. And yes again.
Austerity is harmful in so many ways, including that after long enough with austerity policies, people become convinced that it actually isn't possible to coordinate/pay for public goods.