School Year Quote by Joel Spring

We can pay teachers a hundred thousand dollars a year, and we'll do nothing to improve our schools as long as we keep the…

— William Glasser

As an urban school superintendent, I learned that hiring, training, and investing in professionals to support our children's social and emotional development, meeting academic…

— Michael Bennet

Well, just as in the quality of public schools, there is massive disparity and the compensation given to the public school teachers.

— Charles Best

To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000…

— Arne Duncan

When school officials want to get a teacher out of the classroom, they have to go through an arduous and multi-year process involving hearings…

— Mike Gallagher

I believe that teachers committed to the community are the ones who deserve to earn the top dollar, a starting salary of a quarter…

— Michael Clarke Duncan

I think the problem with schools is not too many incentives but too few. Because of tenure, teachers' unions, and the fact that teachers…

— Steven Levitt

In New York City, the idea that district schools advance equality is a myth.

— Eva Moskowitz

I don't think the schools are getting as much money as they should.

— Matt Gonzalez

I think good teachers are underpaid.

— Peter Brimelow

If we want to recruit and keep the best educators, we need to pay them better.

— Roy Cooper

Teachers don't need as much as $140,000 a year, ... But, perhaps some senators don't need $140,000 a year either.

— John McCain