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CSPAN Washington Journal September 15, 2015

President obama will hold a meeting. Journalshington september 15. School will be canceled today in washington. Educators are seeking almost a 10 pay raise over two years. The larger issue of teacher pay is our focus this morning. Particularly, teachers in the school and your district. Do they receive adequate pay . For parents, you can call 202 7488001. All others, 202 7488002. If you want to post on our social media site, it is on twitter. And facebook. Facebook. Com cspan. Here are the specifics of what is going on in seattle. Here is what teachers are asking for. Ing, well sis basic specifics were not proposed disclosed, they announced on sunday. Wo9. 75 pay raise over t years. Because neither raise applied to the full salary the effective increase is lower. The most recent counter offer was a 9. 2 raise over three years. That is what is going on in seattle but the larger issue of teacher pay, if you think it is adequate, that is our focus. If you want to give our thoughts your thoughts it is 202 7488000. If you are a parent 202 7488001. Ll others, 202 7488002 if you want to help set up the context of what is going on, reports on these issues and is joining us on the phone. Good morning. Guest good morning. Host could you give us a sense of what teacher pay is like in the United States . Guest the average teacher pay in seattle is around 60,000. Nationally we are looking at 57,000. It ranges from 70,000 in places like massachusetts to below 40,000 and mississippi. Host there is a typical complaint that the rate of pay where the teacher lives isnt keeping up with the rate of living . Guest i think that is exactly right. If you look at washington probably, teacher pay is down about 8 and in seattle specifically they say we have not had a cost of living increase. We have seen a boom in the tech sector and the cost of living has increased rapidly. Scale. Comwebsite pay gives a look at the average salary. 47,000,chool teacher and so on. On average, when teachers ask , typically do they go about getting them or do they have to resort to what teachers in seattle are doing to get them . Guest often they do have to resort to striking. It is a complicated process. You have the district and the union at the table and it is a mix of state and local dollars. Its not like going to your boss and asking for a raise. Who is involved directly . Right now were talking the districts and the teachers union. In seattle, teacher pay gets their big salary from the state. Another set of their salary from local property taxes. So far they have not been able to bridge the gap. Host in the larger sense, i suppose those who pay have some voice. Tot do they say and request races from teachers . Guest in seattle, we are seeing quite a bit of support from parents. We have seen Community Centers come out and say we will watch your kids while you are at work and there does seem to be broad support for the teachers. Carefulrict has been about how they framed it. There does seem to be some support for the teachers. Host aside from the actual pay, what about the benefits and perks . You are looking at benefits, retirement benefits. They are pretty reasonable. Seattle the district wanted to extend the school. Teachers are saying you cannot make these other changes without compensating fairly. Host we are in the fourth day of a teacher strike, does that continue on . Meeting up were until late last night and said they believe there has been some progress but so far they are still on strike and expect that to continue. The report on education for National Journal, you can find her writings on the National Journal website. Miss deruy, thank you for your time. We will continue on and here is if it is adequate. 202 7488000 for teachers. 202 7488001 for parents. All others, 202 7488002. Huffington post has a poll taking a look at teacher pay issues. Do you think Public School teachers are paid too much . Only 8 said that. 28 said they are pay the rent amount. Said they are paid to a little and 11 said they are not sure. About, what do you think teacher pay where you live . Caller my husband is a teacher so i have some insight. I think it is adequate. We move from care kansas to maryland. Something that was mind blowing was how many taxes are taken out. We think it is fantastic because the schools here are taken care of. They are falling apart and kansas and Sam Brownback is doing awful things there. But i would say that the pay is adequate because my husband works really hard and he is constantly working. Period are spent for making copies. , he getsmery county paid very well but i still think teachers need to be paid better across the board. Host what does he teach . Caller english. Host at what level . Caller high school in germantown. Host lets hear from david in jackson, mississippi. That teachernk salaries are the meaningfully low. These days they have to pay for some of that material. My sister is a teacher and one of my best friends is a teacher voted merite both pay at one point but whoever funded the pate never came through with the funds. Teacher pay is incredibly inadequate and that is all that i have to say. Here is gabriel. Caller i just want to say that teachers are in fact so underpaid. Do and thes they possibilities they have, especially in the early years, if you dont compensate them they will not move into these careers because those careers do not pass some kind of alternative that is sustainable for them. I want to say one thing that is a big proponent of that. I used to live in durham, north carolina. Some of the worst in north carolina. Dramatic 180hat a degree turn. Things are so different and a lot of it has to do i think that the teachers are paid that are but it also has to do with the fact that parents are held accountable. You have to be involved in your kids daytoday. Even if you work two jobs. I still find a way to get in here to make things happen. Teachers must hold parents accountable and school cannot be seen as a day care. As far as property taxes, what are they like where you live now from where you used to live . Caller the property taxes actually are lower in the place that i live now. All the Better Things that come along with it. So it is the exact same. Footabout 1900 square where as the house i lived in durham was only 1300 square pate 2300 which may not be that much. I would pay more money in taxes to make sure teachers got paid and said of getting all the money cut away from services. Is some of that responses we have heard on teacher pay and if it is adequate. Teacher, im are a parent 202 7488000. If youre a teacher, 202 7488001. If you are all others, 202 7488002. Caller there are so many things you can just take apart when you discuss the subject of education but the number one issue i am , theg as an educator is system is afraid to be accountable to the development of the child and the pursuit of excellence just because of litigation. You have to conform to a structured situation and use the example that every foot does not fit the same shoe. Where education has gone there it gone. Host what do you think about this topic of teacher pay in florida . I dont teach in florida, i live in i teach in maryland. I live in florida but have roots in maryland. Flaws. E the i have taught at the College Level in florida. , but the pay was awful. Host the 10 states that pay the most. Teachers earn an average of 50 1000, 4 56. 51,456. 56,795. Re like indiana, teacher salaries are up to the discretion of the School District. For those of you just joining us, teachers at your school. Do they receive adequate pay . 202 7488000 for parents, 202 7488001 for teachers and 202 7488002 for all others. Next mike from ohio. Caller in might School District where i live the school has a 2. 5 million surplus. I am a Small Business owner and i work by myself. Companies are stealing half of my work through job stealing and the violation of the consent agree. Only made 15,000 and i am paying 300 per month in property taxes. By the School Every Day and it is shut down all summer. Take off every holiday you can dream of and i understand the Teacher Health insurance has a copay of 25. As far as the teachers go, i think they are doing pretty good. Caller we will hear from bob in eugene oregon. Way to pay only fair teachers is to have a base pay like a babysitter, eight dollars an hour, then multiply that by the number of students in the class. I think that is a fair way to pay our teachers. Caller aside from that, how is it done in oregon . Caller i dont know. I dont think it is done that way anywhere. But that is a fair way to do it. Taxes,s far as property how are they where you live and how much of that goes to education . Caller i dont know. I am 72 years old. Know much about the way they pay teachers here. Is toly fair way to pay have a base pay and multiply it by the number of students. Host michael is up next in fort lauderdale, florida. Caller thank you for taking my call. I have had the opportunity to go to Public Schools and private schools my entire life. Improvement that Public Schools there are a lot of teachers very committed but they did not have the adequate resources they need. A lot of the teachers were simply frustrated. They did not have the motivation to succeed. In Public School. And the governor proposed the law that would correlate with the student performance. They hold teachers accountable and it would make them want to inspire their students more. Received a lot and unfortunately did not pass. Personally speaking i could that because the teachers did not have adequate resources and the learning environment was not as , that something is required. At the same time i believed that there should be a level of measurement in accordance with performance. Teachers are treated based on their performance and this is why private schools are doing much better. Democrats plan to increase the role for super pacs. Nicholas pointing out that the plan laid out by the top would pave thes way for the creation of a host of new super pacs. Also suggests that democrats would allow them to use tactics pioneered by republican president ial candidates this cycle. Officially declare their intent to run and most strikingly theawyers are asking the commission to clarify how many candidates their Campaign Staff and volunteers can help support donors for independent super pacs or whether a candidate will be a special guest at the fundraiser with two donors. Democrats whoor like hillary have been reluctant to engage too closely with super pac fundraising. Jennifer on the line for teachers. Go ahead. My way to work today in the middle of the divorce and i make 56,000 is a special ed teacher. I cannot afford to keep the house in my zip code. I cannot afford to pay the property tax. If you are not going to pay the teachers here, then give us tax breaks or something. Of that, in special ed we have the very wealthy suing the schools so their kids can go private. Guy has ar the private plane and a fast bmw and his student is now going to a private school at the cost of taxpayers but i have seen it over and over. It is out there and teachers know about it and sometimes it is very difficult when we cannot a property taxes. Host when you hear about events in seattle where teachers are going on strike, what is your response and the people criticize that because kids are not going to school . Caller i loved it. My brother is in seattle from indiana and he complained on his facebook about something with teachers and i said, you know what . We have to stand up to the credit of doctors. Our work is saving lives and nobody technologies us. Everybody resizes us but dont resize doctors if a patient dies or other health care workers. They keep their jobs. We are at risk for losing our jobs of test scores dont go up and mind went up and nobody did anything. They didnt give me a raise. I got a kudos from the instructional coach. My colleagues did not even say good job. We areour colleagues, not even getting involved because we are jealous of each other, i guess. Sense. Ot making any host how effective is your union . I joined and i heard the union is weak. I taught in florida and florida is a terrible state for education. The union, to my knowledge, is an effective. Host we will hear from a parent in mississippi. Caller i am calling as a former children. D parent of i went to school i dont know how i stayed in school because i was steady in trouble. My parents had very little to do with me in school. I grew up and had three boys that i sent to school. Firmware we moved in the delta to where i am at now, my son was in the third grade and they were still coloring. Here, they were already adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing and he had no idea how to do that. Teachers are not paid near enough for what they go through. The abuse, the namecalling and the disruptive classes. Teachers have to buy their own supplies. That they ought to increase that justifies what they go through. There are some bad teachers just like anywhere else. But for the most part, those teachers are there to help kids for when they grow up. Here is barbara from oklahoma. How are you . Caller i am just fine. I am in florida on vacation but i am calling on behalf of a daughter who is an educator. I put her through school and paid for her schooling and she gets paid very minimal for what she does. She stays in teaching for the love of it and trying to help the kids. , right state of oklahoma now they cant even find enough teachers to teach their classes because they do not pay enough and they are taking people off the streets and certifying them. They take a test and get certified. Collegeent had any education at all to try to get teachers and school. There is a shortage of them because once the kids get out of , they get 10,000 more per year than what they would be paid. Right dont think it is that a person should get a and not yetation paid a decent pay where they can live. Up andthey would wake appreciate these wonderful teachers that they do have. That a dedicated and love teaching children. Trying to help them. Give them a good education. To just pay them better because they deserve it. Thank you. Host we will hear next from freddie. Good morning. How are you . I am well, go ahead. To commentould like on this teachers situation nationwide and statewide. People and indiana call themselves associations. Commentlike to really and say that trainers train. Political nonsense and if we want to balance a budget i would prefer nationally by 20 cut on all teachers and all others. Thank you very much. Host we are asking about teacher pay in the School District where you live if you think they receive adequate pay. 202 7488000 is the number to call as a teacher. 202 7488001 if you are a parent. And all others, 202 7488002. You can also post on our Facebook Page or twitter page as well. In the New York Times focuses on what might happen between Carly Fiorina and donald trump. Writing and saying wednesday they will share the stage with mrs. Fiorina for the first time. Clinical strategists warn mail candidates to use caution but never before in american president ial politics has a candidate who has drawn accusations of sexism and bullying and forced to personally confront the female recipient of his insults on Life Television and with us is fiorina bragging that she is getting under his skin, the showdown is one of the most intriguing subplots of the debate. Adterday took a look at an that started with the statements about Carly Fiorina. The Washington Post also reporting, look at that space thatdonald trump reporting he has no material effect on poll numbers and Carly Fiorinas super pac has turned the attacks into the best ad of the 2016 president ial cycle so far. Ladies, look at this face. Faces. K at all of your the face of leadership. And our of leadership party, the party of women suffrage. The face of leadership in your community, your businesses, your place of work and worship. Not a special interest group. We are the majority of the nation. Of the the face 61yearold woman i am proud of every year and every wrinkle. [applause] Houston Chronicle this morning highlights donald trump appearing in texas. Freddie is from kentucky, good morning. Quintara, in maryland. Caller i am a parent as well as an administrator. However,e a hard task in my region, i think we are paid fairly. Of course you always want more money and as a parent i see both sides of the spectrum, but i do feel including time off snow days and things of that nature that the pay is reasonable. We do need more resources. We need to be advocates for our children or things of that nature so there are areas that we need to improve but i cannot say that more money for teachers will necessarily improve the issues we have with education. Host are there meetings or forums there . What is the interest in the public at large . Caller i hear lots of concern about people wanting to raise pay. I am an administrator and education as well. For those specific situations that need to be addressed but i are thereover all, circumstances are issues that we need to address. They need more support in the classroom. I cannot say that increasing the would by 10,000 or 5000 improve the quality of education. We are in education because we love it and you have people who support their children because we understand the value. Pouring more money, when we do , how to an action plan funnel through and how were going to make effective change, that would be more important than just saying across the board. People are paid a lot of money and they dont do things efficiently well. If that leads to additional pay for teachers, that would be great but i cannot say that more money would solve these issues with education. Twitter, teachers are the teacher pay is adequate but and green says in my area they earn low 30,000 and it takes years of service to earn the National Averages cited. In the wall street journal he looks at education issues for the manhattan institute. The defines benefits at the Retirement Income with a percentage of average salary in the last few years of employment. Calculations,y someone who started teaching in philadelphia at 25 and retired at 60 would have accumulated 400,000 dollars in retirement

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