SUPERINTENDENT’S CORNER: What the Indiana teacher compensation report says
By LAURA HAMMACK, guest columnist
In February of 2019, Governor Holcomb convened a special commission to study teacher compensation and make recommendations on how to realize the same. The Next Level Teacher Compensation Commission recently issued a comprehensive report with their conclusions titled, “A Roadmap for Improving Indiana Teacher Compensation.”
The report is dense, totaling 97 pages with endnotes. (I love endnotes.) It’s an impressive document that evidences an extraordinary amount of work achieved by the 13-member commission. What I like about this report is that it isn’t a report for a report’s sake. It calls to task nearly every component of government and community, including the citizen.
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High cost to low teacher pay
Ed DeLaney
The Next Level Teacher Compensation Commission proved what we already knew: There is a high cost to low teacher pay.
Some shocking truths lay on the report s surface, including the fact that our teacher pay lands in last place for the Midwest, 38th for the country, and has shown the least improvement of any state over the past two decades. Once you dig deeper, you can figure out how and why this happened.
If you understand the “how” and “why” questions, you will also learn that we could dig our way out of this hole. However, we are unlikely to do so.