“Education has long been considered a calling, but that doesn’t mean teachers and staff won’t leave if they are substantially underpaid,” states a Washington Post op-ed. The article cites EPI’s analysis that “spells out how teachers in the early 1990s were, on average, paid about 5 percent less than college graduates in other professions. Today, they are paid close to 25 percent less.” Read the report | Read the Post’s coverage
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