That will ensure a qualified generation of new teachers does something else. How can someone earn 28K in Hawaii and not live in a van/stationwagon parked close to a public restroom?
$28K is probably at least the median income for an individual even in Hawaii. But when the union tells its story, the median is $100,000 -- or should be. Or it is the median household income. Or the median income for a household of four. Or the median for the top half of the population. Always some bogus statistic because the education is so bad nobody can tell the difference! -- and the writing in the newspapers is always this kind of obfuscation for corruption.