My friend Mike Petrilli, president of the Fordham Institute in Washington, posed three intriguing questions the other day.
“Even when calculated in constant dollars, and even after the Great Recession, the U.S. is spending dramatically more money per pupil than in decades past, yet teacher salaries have barely kept pace with inflation: Where is the money going, if not into salaries?”
“How much could we pay teachers if we prioritized higher salaries instead?”
And which states “have chosen to put the additional dollars into higher salaries instead of other options, such as smaller classes, employee healthcare and retiree benefits, or...
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