Starting Pay Is Rising. Nobody Is Watching What Happens to Everyone Else.
Seventy-two bills across twenty-three states this legislative session aim to boost teacher pay, and on the surface, this looks like unambiguous good news for a profession facing a well-documented national shortage. Look closer at how these raises are actually structured, and a real, underdiscussed problem emerges: they overwhelmingly target starting salaries, while veteran teacher pay…