Is a Degree in Education Worth It? Massive debt loads for ineffective Master’s degrees
And two, when school districts are given more money, and even sometimes when that funding increase is specifically sold as a raise for teachers, the money still doesn’t end up in the pockets of individual teachers. Instead, schools have hired a lot more staff and state leaders have allowed pension costs to eat into the money available for base salaries.
Individual districts could try to buck these trends, but that’s not a systemic solution, so many policymakers have turned to…