The Wisconsin teachers UNION reassure us that they are worth every cent of salary and outrageous benefits they can get!
It's not their fault!
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Part of the problem is that putting every teacher on the same salary scale does not go according to the law of supply and demand. English teachers are not as hard to find as math and science teachers. Yet one of the cuts proposed here in Texas is to stop giving bonuses to math and science teachers.