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flying_wahini

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6. After the Teachers Strike a couple of years ago, North Texas had a flux of
Sat Sep 18, 2021, 10:41 AM
Sep 2021

Teachers from Oklahoma come here to get better jobs. This from an old article…

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oklahoma-teacher-of-the-year-moved-to-texas-for-financial-stability/
The average teacher in Texas makes about $52,000 per year but just next door in Oklahoma, educators are paid about $45,000. That pay gap is forcing teachers in Oklahoma, ranked 49th among states for teacher pay, and elsewhere to relocate to other states, creating a teacher shortage.


According to a 2015 study, Oklahoma loses about 13 percent of their teachers a year to low pay with many of them turning to out-of-state jobs, reports CBS News' Omar Villafranca. Teachers there entered their ninth day of striking Thursday over low wages.

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