Simple Math
September 9, 2014 - by
When it comes to teacher pay, Republicans must feel like they’re pushing a truck up a hill with a rope.
Thom Tillis claims the legislature passed a 7 percent pay raise. Then Governor McCrory sends teachers a letter telling them it’s a 5.5 percent average pay raise. Then teachers like Michelle Pettey in Wake County get the paycheck and see a raise of only 1.39 percent. (A tip of the TAP hat to Mark Binker at WRAL for this story.)
Republicans have been scrambling this year to get out of the hole they dug with teachers since 2010. They’ve pushed the 7 percent claim hard. But if teachers like Pettey look at their paychecks and decide they’re being conned, the hole is going to get a lot deeper.
Will Tillis then tell teachers, like he told Senator Hagan, that they just don’t understand simple math?
Posted in General, North Carolina - Republicans
Simple Math
September 9, 2014/
When it comes to teacher pay, Republicans must feel like they’re pushing a truck up a hill with a rope.
Thom Tillis claims the legislature passed a 7 percent pay raise. Then Governor McCrory sends teachers a letter telling them it’s a 5.5 percent average pay raise. Then teachers like Michelle Pettey in Wake County get the paycheck and see a raise of only 1.39 percent. (A tip of the TAP hat to Mark Binker at WRAL for this story.)
Republicans have been scrambling this year to get out of the hole they dug with teachers since 2010. They’ve pushed the 7 percent claim hard. But if teachers like Pettey look at their paychecks and decide they’re being conned, the hole is going to get a lot deeper.
Will Tillis then tell teachers, like he told Senator Hagan, that they just don’t understand simple math?
Posted in General, North Carolina - Republicans