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To: JohnM who wrote (11095)	10/6/2003 11:06:00 PM
From: gamesmistress	Read Replies (2) of 793838

I checked the AFT site and found that the last state ranking by teachers' salaries adjusted by COLA was done for 1996-97. Pity they seem to be no longer doing it. In that last ranking, NJ was rated 2nd without COLA adjustment and 5th with it. Not that big a drop. The big difference in the cost of living here in the last few years, of course, is the skyrocketing cost of housing. That affects everyone, not just teachers. And I agree that education is critically important, but not that the current educational structure is necessarily worth preserving nor that greatly increasing teachers' salaries is going to suddenly attract vast numbers of people who would have otherwise gone into investment banking or network administration. :-/ There's an interesting survey on the Public Agenda site called Stand By Me. It "examines the attitudes of America's public school teachers--about their jobs, the challenges they face and the reform proposals that may change what they do." I get the impression that yes, money matters, but the working environment and the administration matter just as much. publicagenda.org

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