PolicyGuy

Tuesday, December 28, 2004


Should Teachers Be Paid More?
In Texas, a proposal is floating to give all government-school teachers a raise of $3,000.

Teachers are the key to education, which is important for the health of the economy and the republic.

So the proposal is a good idea?

Not quite, says Byron Schlomach.

For starters, the across-the-board proposal would do nothing to deal with the problem that some teachers are, relative to others, underpaid. They would still be underpaid.

The best way of making sure that teachers who deserve to get paid more do get paid more: enact merit pay and educational choice, so that parents can search out the best-performing teachers, who will be rewarded accordingly.

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