re: Give teachers a raise....Nah.

The problems with teacher pay are the same as the problems with any public sector employee pay. There is no incentive to do good work.

If you excel you are limited to the standard 3% raise. If you are awful, you get the same 3%. Employees worth a damn leave state service. If government were able to hire, fire, and compensate like the private sector we would have a smaller government workforce of higher competency and higher paid employees.