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TexasTowelie

(116,554 posts)
Sat Sep 18, 2021, 11:00 PM Sep 2021

Experts: Mississippi teacher pay needs to increase if state wants to keep its educators

Mississippi state senators repeatedly heard on Wednesday something they already knew: The state's teachers are among the worst paid in the nation.

The senate's education committee held an hourslong hearing at the Mississippi State Capitol to study the necessity of giving the state's teachers a raise, with testimony from the Mississippi Department of Education and the Southern Regional Education Board, an Atlanta nonprofit studying how to improve education in 16 southern states.

No Mississippi teachers were called to testify. Teachers were able to submit comments to the committee via email, and more than 200 did so, Sen. Dennis DeBar Jr., chair of the education committee, said.

The state lags the rest of the South in teacher pay, with an average teacher salary of $46,843 for educators with 15 years experience, according to data from the Southern Regional Education Board. That figure is more than $8,300 less than the average salary for a teacher with 15 years experience in the rest of the region.

Read more: https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/politics/2021/09/16/mississippi-senate-holds-hearings-teacher-pay-health-benefits/8347223002/

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Experts: Mississippi teacher pay needs to increase if state wants to keep its educators (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2021 OP
the state would rather play stoopid games with our monies like denying abortion rights . AllaN01Bear Sep 2021 #1
They don't Turbineguy Sep 2021 #2
How do they survive on this? wcast Sep 2021 #3

AllaN01Bear

(22,999 posts)
1. the state would rather play stoopid games with our monies like denying abortion rights .
Sat Sep 18, 2021, 11:13 PM
Sep 2021

endless recounts . corruption and so on.

Turbineguy

(38,331 posts)
2. They don't
Sat Sep 18, 2021, 11:25 PM
Sep 2021

Good teachers are likely to lead to a well educated populace. The sort that don't like the republicans to cheat.

wcast

(595 posts)
3. How do they survive on this?
Sun Sep 19, 2021, 05:51 AM
Sep 2021

In Pa, most districts start new teachers at this salary or higher. $50,000 start is the new norm.

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