Tag: public school teachers

Teacher teaching a classroom full of students

Kentucky’s highhanded shenanigans hurt the effort to reform public pension plans. Teachers are the most valuable members of society.  They educate our children and help them grow up.  Children probably spend more time with their teachers than with their parents.  Teachers should be paid properly and treated with great respect. Instead, we seem to b…

student e-learns with help of his teacher in library

Teachers receive less than college educated workers in the private sector and many lack Social Security coverage. Teacher protests in Arizona, Kentucky, Oklahoma, and West Virginia made me look back to a 2011 study on the relative compensation of public and private sector employees.  Our conclusion at the time was that, on average, workers in…