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		quantified on Feb 7, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Teachers are leaving and few people choosing the f... Education funding and teacher pay are really different things. I’d look forward to a detailed chart of accounts that derive each of them.

sershe on Feb 8, 2022 [–]

There's data for that; it's basically flat in constant dollars: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d18/tables/dt18_211.50.a...

Interestingly, private school teachers are paid even less: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d13/tables/dt13_211.10.a...

Given that, something about public schools must indeed be terrible for teachers too, not just for students and taxpayers ;)

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