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a Rhee-style compensation package—starting salaries of $65,000, top salaries of $150,000—plus funding for teacher training could raise the percentage of top-third grads among new teacher hires in the one-in-six neediest schools from 14 percent to a whopping 68 percent. The cost at current teacher-student ratios: just $30 billion a year, or about 5 percent of total K–12 education spending.

John Heilemann

How Davis Guggenheim’s Documentary ‘Waiting for “Superman”’ Will Further Fuel the Education Debate — New York Magazine

(via fred-wilson)

I’m going to go ahead and blame parents for this. They should be demanding the right to pay for better teachers. With that right will come the organizational power to not pay (fire) shitty teachers and needless administrators.

My oldest is 3 1/2. When your kid is that old, you pay for everything. I get annoyed at things like no story time during the summer to save money at a local childrens library. Want $50? Ok, here is $50, now please read to this group of 30 kids eager to listen.

What happens when my kid turns 6? Is it all of a sudden the state’s responsibility? No, but parents act like it is. “I pay my taxes!” deserves a quick response of “fuck you, these are your kids”

I’ve had this opinion since I was 13. (via giantrobotlasers)
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