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The brief’s key findings are: Whether public teachers are over- or under-paid is a source of lively debate. This study sheds new light on the topic by using more accurate estimates of benefit costs. The results show that teachers earn roughly the same as similar private sector workers. However, given cuts to pension benefits for…

In anticipation of rambunctious children returning to the classroom in the fall, older teachers are sounding alarms about how challenging it will be to make the schools safe for themselves, as well as the children and families. Their fears about going back to work in a pandemic are shared by older workers around the country…