The Teacher Pay Shuffle
2014-01-09 - by
Governor McCrory is in a box on teacher pay, and Democrats can’t let him wriggle out.
You don’t need to be a political genius to predict what’s coming. McCrory will try to make a big splash by proposing a pay raise for teachers this year. He has to. He and the Republican legislature have angered and alienated teachers, all educators, school board members, students, parents, Democrats and Republicans.
So they’ll try to do damage control in the May legislature. Call it “the Teacher Pay Shuffle.” Probably a one-year raise and a vague promise about the future. (They’ll say they can’t do more because of Medicaid. Which they’ll blame on Bev Perdue, Obamacare and Benghazi.)
Unfortunately, Jim Hunt beat them to the punch. His op-ed Sunday made it clear than one-year-and-a-promise isn’t enough. There has to be a four-year commitment to reach the national average, which is where we were in Hunt’s fourth term.
Hunt set the bar that McCrory has to meet. Again.
The Teacher Pay Shuffle
2014-01-09/
Governor McCrory is in a box on teacher pay, and Democrats can’t let him wriggle out.
You don’t need to be a political genius to predict what’s coming. McCrory will try to make a big splash by proposing a pay raise for teachers this year. He has to. He and the Republican legislature have angered and alienated teachers, all educators, school board members, students, parents, Democrats and Republicans.
So they’ll try to do damage control in the May legislature. Call it “the Teacher Pay Shuffle.” Probably a one-year raise and a vague promise about the future. (They’ll say they can’t do more because of Medicaid. Which they’ll blame on Bev Perdue, Obamacare and Benghazi.)
Unfortunately, Jim Hunt beat them to the punch. His op-ed Sunday made it clear than one-year-and-a-promise isn’t enough. There has to be a four-year commitment to reach the national average, which is where we were in Hunt’s fourth term.
Hunt set the bar that McCrory has to meet. Again.