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Related: About this forumHouston school district holds job fair for North Carolina teachers
By T. Keung Hui
khui@newsobserver.comMay 31, 2014 Updated 17 hours ago
RALEIGH Hundreds of North Carolina teachers came to Raleigh on Saturday to find out how they could make as much as $16,000 more per year if they relocate to work in the largest school system in Texas.
Recruiters from the Houston Independent School District touted benefits such as higher pay and incentives to lure away North Carolina teachers whove grown frustrated at being among the lowest paid in the nation. The job fair added more fuel to the heated debate over how to raise average teacher pay in North Carolina out of the spot of 47th highest in the nation.
If they offered me a position, I would definitely accept it and move now, said Xavier Wallace, 23, a second-grade teacher at Eno Valley Elementary School in Durham who attended the job fair at the DoubleTree Hilton Raleigh.
Wallace, a first-year teacher, would make $12,000 more in Houston than his current salary of $34,000.
http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/05/31/3901272/houston-school-district-holds.html?sp=/99/100/&ihp=1#storylink=cpy
khui@newsobserver.comMay 31, 2014 Updated 17 hours ago
RALEIGH Hundreds of North Carolina teachers came to Raleigh on Saturday to find out how they could make as much as $16,000 more per year if they relocate to work in the largest school system in Texas.
Recruiters from the Houston Independent School District touted benefits such as higher pay and incentives to lure away North Carolina teachers whove grown frustrated at being among the lowest paid in the nation. The job fair added more fuel to the heated debate over how to raise average teacher pay in North Carolina out of the spot of 47th highest in the nation.
If they offered me a position, I would definitely accept it and move now, said Xavier Wallace, 23, a second-grade teacher at Eno Valley Elementary School in Durham who attended the job fair at the DoubleTree Hilton Raleigh.
Wallace, a first-year teacher, would make $12,000 more in Houston than his current salary of $34,000.
http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/05/31/3901272/houston-school-district-holds.html?sp=/99/100/&ihp=1#storylink=cpy
NC plan would join states ending teacher tenure
http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/05/31/3900941/nc-plan-would-join-states-ending.html?sp=/99/100/&ihp=1#storylink=cpy
http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/05/31/3900941/nc-plan-would-join-states-ending.html?sp=/99/100/&ihp=1#storylink=cpy
NC GOP to the rescue! Annual salary to increase by about $5,800, but only if the teacher agrees to give up tenure. And losing out on over 7,000 teacher assistants...
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Houston school district holds job fair for North Carolina teachers (Original Post)
WorseBeforeBetter
Jun 2014
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msongs
(69,409 posts)1. $34K to start?? our SoCal teachers made more than that 12 yrs ago nt
WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)2. Welcome to the South.
Or at least North Carolina.
CRK7376
(2,222 posts)3. And I want to
return to a classroom in NC. Retiring from the military and going back to teaching. I spent 13 years teaching high school, then the Army paid a lot better so I left teaching. Now I'm heading back to NC and want to start teaching again. With luck I will find a position starting in January 2015 in the Winston-Salem area. My family is there, we were raised there and our kids are in school there. Not interested in Texas. Oh well.
WorseBeforeBetter
(11,441 posts)4. Good luck to you.
I loooove Winston-Salem.