State Supt. Flanagan: Michigan Teachers Should Make $100K
The head of the Michigan Department of Education asserts that higher wages would encourage more people to become teachers.
The key to getting more qualified math and science teachers into Michigan schools is simple, according to state Superintendent Mike Flanagan: pay them more. Flanagan, who heads up the Michigan Department of Education, said Monday at an assembly of scientists at Michigan State University that Michigan schools need more math and science teachers. The problem, he said, is that most scientists and mathematicians don't consider teaching in public schools to be a viable career option. “We can do all we want with content standards, but the elephant in the room is that it won’t do much good if we don’t have enough math and science teachers in our schools,” Flanagan said while discussing science standards in K-12 shools, according to a release from…
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Timothy Rath
4:18 pm on Thursday, January 31, 2013
We have corrected the story to reflect that the average teachers salary for Birmingham teachers in 2010-11 was actually $75,323.07, according to district officials. more ›