Most will agree our teachers deserve better pay, but no one seems to have plan to make it happen.  We believe our K - 8th grade teachers should be our brightest and best our education system has to offer. While teachers and professors at the high school and college level are important, the effects of teaching our very young can have a life long effect.  

We propose raising these teachers to a base pay of $65,000 and adjusted across America for cost of living. With a minimum of a Masters degree in education with a focus on early childhood development and elementary development. Teachers with bachelors degrees could only teach 9th - 12th with a base pay of $50,000, Reduce administrative overhead and let our teachers teach. 

While test scores are important it’s not the only factor. If we have the brightest children with the worst attitude, we have failed our children and severely limited their future. 

Think about how we as a nation we entrust our young children to teachers with a simple four year degree, pay them so little that most have second jobs to make ends meet, and yet expect them to produce the smartest people in the world. Yet in the same communities medical doctors, lawyers, pharmacists, optometrists, and even chiropractors usually make at least five times the pay. Most of these professionals will never have the opportunity to have a life long impact on our children. Even worse outside our communities entertainers, actors, actresses, models, and athletes are paid millions and looked upon as role models by our children. 

Many of these professionals really do not understand the problems in public schools, they choose private schools for their own children. Even our federal government now encourages abandoning our public schools by providing vouchers for private schools. 

It’s way past time for a change. We want to visit with every member of the state legislatures across the country, see who really has the commitment for providing a better future for our children. It’s easy to say they are for better education, it’s harder to commit the funding and develop a plan to make it happen.

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