We entrust our kids with Michigan’s teachers five days a week. Yet most us of probably don’t know much about the way our teachers are paid. The truth might be surprising.
Michigan Radio’s Jennifer Guerra explores teacher pay in Michigan, and what it means for keeping the best teachers in their classrooms instead of seeing them flee for more lucrative and less stressful jobs elsewhere.
The foundation for her series of reports is a Michigan Radio survey of almost 400 teachers in 118 districts across the state, conducted earlier this year. The conclusions from the survey are complex, but the overall feeling from respondents was negative, Guerra said.
Source: Michigan Radio