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Editor,
There is a very simple solution to teacher housing. Pay them more money so they can decide where they want to live. Providing teacher housing is a lopsided benefit. By increasing the pay of all teachers, every teacher benefits and not just the select few.
Dr. Robert Luebke, senior fellow at the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation writes, “Instead of turning school districts into landlords, better options might be to increase teacher salaries and improve zoning and regulations to bring about more housing options.”
In an article recently published in EdWeek, Michael Hickey, the president of United Teachers of Santa Clara put it this way: “Ultimately, if teachers were paid adequately for the value they give society, we wouldn’t have to have programs to subsidize their housing.”
In a recent AP article, Daly City did not solely depend on taxing the residents. They first secured grants and other funding and only came to the taxpayers for the gap. “The district also has a more ambitious plan to lease school property for a 1,200-unit development that would mix retail with market-rate housing and generate revenue to beef up teacher salaries.”
As a former SSFUSD employee, I can tell you teachers don’t cite housing as their day to day frustration. They want more autonomy and better pay.
Let teachers teach, pay them what they deserve, build state of the art schools. Fix the systemic issues that plague our schools first. No on Measure T.
Davylyn Perez
South San Francisco
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Perhaps we can let the market decide with Education Savings Accounts allowing school choice. Let teachers earn what they deserve if they put children first. No on Measure T, but not by paying them more, by forcing them to put children first.
I am not sure how many people agree but I have always been in favor of the inverse pay scale. The lower the grade taught, the higher the pay.
I would have no problem with increasing teachers' pay contingent upon the elimination of tenure, instituting annual and meaningful performance evaluations and weeding out those who do not pass muster. School districts could also eliminate hordes of administrators whose payroll could be redirected to those actually teaching. As long as the teacher unions run the show, there is no viable solution to compensate the underpaid teaching staff.
Hello, Craig
What portion of Davylyn's closing statement, "Let teachers teach, pay them what they deserve, build state of the art schools. Fix the systemic issues that plague our schools first. No on Measure T," would you argue against?
Hi Ray - We should certainly let teachers teach (with appropriate supervision, evaluation, and following whatever state/county/local laws/rules are in place), absolutely pay them what they deserve, and build state of the art schools. We could debate what the "systemic issues" are that "plague" our schools and I suspect we'd find lots of different opinions on what those. I'm not up to speed on Measure T so I won't weigh in on that.
I agree that we should pay teachers A LOT more, and, I also think it makes equal sense to create beautiful, affordable, sustainable teacher/staff housing to attract and retain the best and the brightest to our communities. And, I'd invite folks to take a good look at the John Locke Foundation (quoted in the post) and ask yourself a few questions: Would people in a John Locke world support higher taxes to pay for those teachers? And, would there even be public schools in a John Locke world? https://www.johnlocke.org/about/
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