TX: Teachers are losing hope that lawmakers will give them a big raise this session

[RandySF]

With less than a month left in the legislative session, the odds that teachers will get the kind of raise they say they badly need are rapidly diminishing.

Teachers had hoped this would be the year the Texas Legislature would approve a substantial across-the-board pay raise for them as lawmakers, tasked with deciding how to spend a historic budget surplus, vowed to address the state’s yearslong teacher shortage.

But some of the ambitious proposals to put more money in teachers’ wallets — including a bill that would have given every teacher in Texas a $15,000 raise — never made it out of the House or Senate education committees, which have to give first approval to a bill before it gets a full vote by either chamber.

The bills calling for raises left and with the most chances of passing are Senate Bill 9 by Sen. Brandon Creighton, R-Conroe, and House Bill 100 by Rep. Ken King, R-Canadian. Both would offer significantly more modest raises.




https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05/10/texas-legislature-teachers-pay/

[joshdawg]

1. I would not be surprised if some republican

didn't propose a bill to cut teacher's salaries. I'm also sure it would pass and abbott, being the asshole he is, would sign it in a heartbeat.

Voters in Texas need to stand up and vote the republican asswipes out of office. They are killing the state.

[OrlandoDem2]

2. Teachers everywhere should be skeptical of the GOP. No teacher should ever

vote Republican!