While the stimulus package injects about $90.9 Billion into education with subcategories assigned for specific amounts; that portion allocated for teacher salaries was listed as $300 million.
And so I looked up the number of teachers in the USA and also for California alone. There are 2.9 million teachers across the country and 310,000 teachers in California.
So here is the math done two ways:
1) Divide the $300 million equally by state and California receives $6 million. Divide that between the 310,000 teachers and each teacher will get a pay increase of..... drumroll.... $19.35!
2) Divide the $300 million equally amongst the 2.9 million teachers across the nation and you get a pay increase of ..... $103 per teacher.
Wow. I'm feeling really stimulated by that!
But it is Friday. Someone should check my math! After all the total given to education was $90.9 billion. If the whole package was given to teacher salaries (which it is not), then each teacher would get a pay increase of $31,344. That would put the average teacher salary range from $60,000 to $100,000.
WORSE, the state gets $250 million to continue the flawed analysis of student performance. What a waste of money that one is. We keep making gains in scores but our dropout rate increases. That math I fully understand!
Here are some breakdowns of the stimulation education will get. Don't get too excited.
- MisterWriter
Education
Total: $90.9 billion
- $44.5 billion in aid to local school districts to prevent layoffs and cutbacks, with flexibility to use the funds for school modernization and repair (State Equalization Fund)
- $15.6 billion to increase Pell Grants from $4,731 to $5,350
- $13 billion for low-income public schoolchildren
- $12.2 billion for IDEA special education
- $2.1 billion for Head Start
- $2 billion for childcare services
- $650 million for educational technology
- $300 million for increased teacher salaries
- $250 million for states to analyze student performance
- $200 million to support working college students
- $70 million for the education of homeless children
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Recovery_and_Reinvestment_Act_of_2009
4 comments:
I just hope that some of the money is passed through from the State to local school districts. I have to say that I am not holding my breath. Local school districts need the money badly and given the State's fiscal mismanagement, I don't believe that any value will be added to the stimulus money by allowing our State to add their management to the stimulus package.
OK but I want to know are you going to raise the already over $100,000 (in some states up to $200,000) the administrators are already getting?
I think we need to cut a few of them and lower their pay including their business cars.
Most of them (NOT ALL) do not even know how a real school runs that is why we end up with "No Child Left Behind" and other programs that they THINK will work but instead only hold back the children that should not be to accommodate the children that struggle in class rooms of 30+
I may sound stupid, but what is the 2 billion for childcare services? Why am I paying for childcare for someone else's child?
Isn't that the responsibility of the parent? Am I missing something?
Kate
There are a lot of federally mandated childcare services for low income etc...
As for "responsibility of the parent" - um....yep! Just ask Octo Nutjob Mom
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