Teacher Pay Raises: A Comparative View

Joshua P. Starr (Credit/Wash. Examiner)

 

 

In my last visit to the Washington, D.C. area, I came across an article entitled “Pay raises proposed for Montgomery teachers” in the paper edition of Gazette.Net, a Maryland community newspaper which covers Montgomery County.

Unlike New Jersey, Maryland schools do not have local school boards as we do in The Garden State.  Instead, the fiscal and educational management of schools in the Old Line State is consolidated at the county level, including, naturally, the school budget.

In that regard, Joshua P. Starr, Superintendent of Montgomery County, MD Schools recently proposed a pay increase of 0.61 percent, or an $8.6 million increase to the current “$1.4 billion budgeted for salaries and wages, excluding other compensation.”