Education

The $106K teacher

April 5, 2018

Jonathan Small

School choice is good for teachers. With so much focus on education policy right now, that’s an important fact.

Calculating the pay raise, Oklahoma teachers rank 31st in raw dollars nationally. Economist Byron Schlomach, a scholar-in-residence at the Institute for the Study of Free Enterprise at Oklahoma State University, calculated that, thanks to the new pay raise, Oklahoma’s cost-of-living-adjusted teacher pay is now 11th in the nation. State Superintendent Joy Hofmeister noted the pay raise moves us up to 2nd in the region, just behind Texas which has no income tax.

That’s good news. But consider this: The highest paid public-school teacher in Oklahoma actually teaches at Epic Charter School. She makes $106,324.

Read the rest over on The Journal Record.