Welcome to today’s edition
of Let’s Make a Deal! Our contestants are the teachers of North Carolina.
When we last checked in on these teachers, tenure had been
eliminated in “exchange” for some pretty small bonuses that districts
were less than enthusiastic about having to figure out how to distribute.
Let’s see what’s behind
Door #1:
Governor McCrory’s recently
proposed budget includes a base pay increase for the newest teachers, an
average 2% across-the board raise for all teachers, and a pilot pay scale that
rewards for performance. The new plan also allows districts to opt out of last
year’s controversial tenure law.
What’s behind Door
#2?
The Senate made a splashy
proposal recently: relinquish tenure protections and we’ll give you an
immediate raise of up to 11%. The Senate-proposed budget also repeals the
tenure elimination law, a pretty clear admission that it needed some, shall we
say, fine tuning.
And Door #3?
The status quo, which
includes no pay raise (again) and a tenure law that no one seems happy with
(and two judges have declared unconstitutional).
So teachers, which door
will it be? Is there a true reward or are they all Zonks? Stay tuned!
