re: Teacher Pay Raises

The issue with current teacher pay is that they’re mostly paid roughly the same despite vast differences in supply/demand for teachers in different grades and subjects as well as the qualifications for each. There is always a glut of k-4 teachers and history teachers while there’s a massive shortage of hs algebra, chemistry, and physics teachers. There wouldn’t be a shortage if they could pay those teachers more, thus incentivizing more kids to go to college to become a teacher in one of those in-demand fields.