Houston school district holds job fair for North Carolina teachers [View all]

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By T. Keung Hui
[e-mail] 31, 2014 Updated 17 hours ago

RALEIGH — Hundreds of North Carolina teachers came to Raleigh on Saturday to find out how they could make as much as $16,000 more per year if they relocate to work in the largest school system in Texas.

Recruiters from the Houston Independent School District touted benefits such as higher pay and incentives to lure away North Carolina teachers who’ve grown frustrated at being among the lowest paid in the nation. The job fair added more fuel to the heated debate over how to raise average teacher pay in North Carolina out of the spot of 47th highest in the nation.

“If they offered me a position, I would definitely accept it and move now,” said Xavier Wallace, 23, a second-grade teacher at Eno Valley Elementary School in Durham who attended the job fair at the DoubleTree Hilton Raleigh.

Wallace, a first-year teacher, would make $12,000 more in Houston than his current salary of $34,000.

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NC plan would join states ending teacher tenure
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NC GOP to the rescue! Annual salary to increase by about $5,800, but only if the teacher agrees to give up tenure. And losing out on over 7,000 teacher assistants...