Teacher salary rankings in West Virginia are Oklahoma, Mississippi and South Dakota. Oklahoma teachers who have not received a raise since 2007 have announced strikes on 2 April. The Oklahoma Teacher Strike Facebook team, created during the West Virginia teacher strike, has won 8,000 members within 36 hours of founding and currently has more than 53,000 members. As in West Virginia, Oklahoma State Republicans are reducing taxes on existing oil companies by $ 47 million plus tax cuts of $ 147 million to top incomes. Naturally, the country is dealing with a budget disparity of $ 1.3 billion, forced to cut expenditure, including a 23.6% decline in education per capita. Due to the budget crisis, many teachers in Oklahoma State have quit their jobs near Texas, where wages are somewhat better but less than the national average, to search for work.
Currently, the salary situation of American teachers has an undeniable effect on the welfare of teachers of national public schools. The average salary for the first year is $ 41,600, and the opportunities for salary restrictions are limited 15 The annual average basic teacher salary for 2015-16 grade is $ 55,100.16. The salary of teachers is surprisingly low as there is a university degree compared to the average salary of other professionals working full time. In fact, teachers receive 60% of the average salary of full-time professionals receiving the same education. This is the lowest relative income among the OECD countries 17.
NíniveCalegari is a former classroom teacher, who served as the chairman of the teacher compensation program aimed at increasing salaries of American teachers. She is also an award-winning movie by Matt Damon, a co-producer of American teachers, who records the lives of four teachers based on the book "The Teacher Has Easy" she co-authored. Great sacrifice of American teachers and small wages. She is a co-founder of the Network of Literacy Organizations, dedicated to supporting the improvement of students' writings (with Dave Eggers) called 826 National. In this article, she wrote why she believes she needs to raise teacher salary