Arne Duncan: Pay great teachers $150K By: Tim Mak January 27, 2012 09:28 AM EST Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Friday that the starting salaries of teachers should double, up to $65,000 a year, and that excellent teachers should be able to make up to $150,000. “I’ve been very radical on this. I think that young teachers, we should double their salaries [to] $60,000, $65,000. I think that great teachers should be able to make $130,000, $140,000, $150,000 - pick a number,” said Duncan on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” Duncan suggested those figures while responding to a question about New York...