State Supt. Flanagan: Michigan Teachers Should Make $100K
The head of the Michigan Department of Education asserts that higher wages would encourage more people to become teachers.
The key to getting more qualified math and science teachers into Michigan schools is simple, according to state Superintendent Mike Flanagan: pay them more. Flanagan, who heads up the Michigan Department of Education, said Monday at an assembly of scientists at Michigan State University that Michigan schools need more math and science teachers. The problem, he said, is that most scientists and mathematicians don't consider teaching in public schools to be a viable career option. “We can do all we want with content standards, but the elephant in the room is that it won’t do much good if we don’t have enough math and science teachers in our schools,” Flanagan said while discussing science standards in K-12 shools, according to a release from…
Jessica Carreras
11:27 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013
Hi everyone - just so you know, it has been discovered that the statistics on the average salary of Birmingham teachers were reported incorrectly by the district to the state, resulting in incorrect numbers coming from the Michigan Department of Education. A correction with the accurate average salary has been noted in the article. more ›