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The Surprising Truth About Teacher Pay

When adjusted for cost of living, pension contribution, and experience, teacher compensation in Illinois ranks 3rd in the nation.

From the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs:

Education researchers Jay Greene and Marcus Winters said it best: “Few clichés permeate our culture more thoroughly than that of the underpaid schoolteacher.” And nobody perpetuates that cliché better than the National Education Association (NEA), the nation’s largest teachers union.

In November 2006, the National Education Association released its annual estimates of teacher salaries for the 2005-06 school year. Over the past 10 years, the education establishment has been using teacher salary reports from the NEA and the American Federal of Teachers (AFT) to support a campaign that portrays teachers as victims of miserly, unappreciative, and ignorant taxpayers.

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Posted May 28, 2007.