Teacher strikes touching every part of America

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Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN
Updated 8:32 AM ET, Sat February 23, 2019

... They've gone on strike in Denver, Los Angeles, Oakland and throughout West Virginia this year. They walked out in Arizona, Colorado, Kentucky, North Carolina, Oklahoma and West Virginia last year. They've rallied in Georgia and Virginia ...

The national takeaways, according to Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, are that schools have been underfunded for years, that teachers have had enough and that parents are behind them ...

Teacher salaries nationwide are down compared with recent decades. Adjusting for inflation, they've shrunk 1.6% nationwide between 2000 and 2017, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics, which compared the average annual salaries of teachers since 1969. US wages more generally have risen in that time, according to a Pew review of BLS statistics.

In some states that saw recent strikes, such as Arizona and North Carolina, salaries are down more than 10% before teachers fought for increases ...

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/23/politics/teacher-strikes-politics/index.html

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

1. Great post, but there are other more glaring statistics in the article.

from the link above (bolding mine):

But the average salaries do not tell the whole story, according to research from Sylvia Allegretto of UC Berkeley and Lawrence Mishel at the Economic Policy Institute, a think tank that focuses on low- and middle-income workers. They have documented the erosion of teacher salaries compared with other similarly educated workers. Calling this erosion a "wage penalty," they argue that female teachers make 15.6% less than comparably educated women and that male teachers make 26.8% less than comparably educated men.

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