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Teachers paid an average salary of $46,752, national survey finds – Profs to analyze teachers’ salaries in Montana

Teachers earned an average of $46,752 last year, a slight raise that did not keep pace with inflation, a teachers’ union says.

The average salary increased 2.1% in 2003-04, according to state figures compiled by the National Education Association, the country’s largest teachers union.

The inflation rate was 3.3% in 2004. Since 2000, the raise for teachers has ranged from 2.1% to 3.8%.

"Teachers should never have to choose between doing what they love and supporting their families," the group’s president, Reg Weaver, said Thursday. "We can’t continue to ask them to fulfill such an important mission without providing the support they deserve."

Full Article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-06-25-teacher-salary-raise_x.htm

Full Survey:
http://www.nea.org/edstats/images/05rankings.pdf

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Profs to analyze teachers’ salaries

By ALLISON FARRELL
Gazette State Bureau

HELENA – A special committee of legislators working to solve the state’s school funding problem awarded a $25,000 contract to two economists from Montana State University to survey teacher compensation packages in Montana.

Economics professors Christiana Stoddard and Douglas Young will perform an in-depth analysis of Montana teacher salaries and hope to answer the question of why so many Montana school districts have trouble recruiting and retaining qualified educators.

"What do we need to pay them so we can attract quality people into the system?" Young asked the Quality Schools Interim Legislative Committee Tuesday. "That is the bottom line we are aiming for."

Full Story: http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/06/29/build/state/55-teacher-salaries.inc

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