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With a focus on diversifying the teaching profession, where does the Educatyion Trusts stand on the issue of improved teacher compensation?
NICHOLAS MUNYAH-PENNY (0:12)
Education Trust thinks that improved compensation is critical for just improving the actual prestige of the workforce overall to get folks into the profession. And when we’re thinking about teacher diversity, we’re really thinking about how can we incentivize those folks to get into the profession and also to stay in the profession. And a part of that is obviously raising salaries across the board, but it’s also about targeting the relief to high need schools and high need subjects, and also things like loan forgiveness and mortgage relief, because those things are really important for building wealth, which we know is critical for teachers of color.
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With a focus on diversifying the teaching profession, where does the Education Trust stand on the issue of improved compensation?
NICHOLAS MUNYAH-PENNY (0:56)
Differentiating pay across the professions. So thinking about their high need schools that need additional staff, they’re the ones that have the largest teaching shortages. And also those are often places where students of color are more likely to be in those under-resourced schools. And so getting extra money to those teachers to allow those students to get access to teachers of color, I think is critical.
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What is differentiated pay?
NICHOLAS MUNYAH-PENNY 1:23)
Differentiated pay really means incentivizing those subjects or schools or districts where it’s been traditionally more difficult to attract teachers. So paying those teachers more in order to get folks into those places where teachers are naturally either not going to in the first place, or once they get some experience, moving to a different school.