Kamala Harris: Our teacher pay gap is a national failure. Here’s how we can fix it.
By Kamala D. Harris March 26 at 6:00 AM Kamala D. Harris represents California in the Senate and is running for the Democratic presidential nomination.
Strikes by teachers in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Los Angeles, Oakland, Calif., and Denver underscore the fact that this crisis is not bound by region or ideology. Instead, they reflect our national failure to value educators and pay them what they deserve. The “pay gap” between what teachers earn and what people with similar educations earn is creating disastrous consequences. Teachers are leaving their dream jobs because they can’t make ends meet. Bright college graduates are not choosing this path of service because they need to pay their student loans. Rural schools are unable to fill teaching vacancies while urban schools struggle with high rates of turnover.
The plan will also include a multibillion-dollar investment in evidence-based programs that elevate the teaching profession. Half of this funding would be dedicated to historically black colleges and universities and other minority-serving institutions, because more than 30 percent of all black teachers, and more than 40 percent of all Hispanic teachers, graduate from those schools.
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