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NEW REPORT: The teacher weekly wage penalty hit 21.4 percent in 2018, a record high epi.org/165729 by @Sly21 and @LarryMishel #education #teachers 
"In 2018, teacher strikes in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Arizona, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Colorado raised the profile of deteriorating teacher pay as a critical public policy issue."
"Teachers, students, parents, and community supporters protested cutbacks in public education spending and a squeeze on teacher pay that have persisted well into the economic recovery from the Great Recession."
"Spending cuts over the recovery were not the result of weak state economies. Rather, many state legislatures and governors cut spending in order to finance tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations."
"This report underscores the crisis in teacher pay by updating our data series on the teacher wage and compensation penalty—the percent by which public school teachers are paid less in wages and compensation than other college-educated workers...
"and by providing new regression-based estimates of the teacher weekly wage penalty in each state."
Key findings: The mid-1990s marks the start of a period of sharply eroding teacher weekly wages and an escalating teacher weekly wage penalty
Wage penalties have grown significantly for both men and women teachers
Improvements in benefits relative to professionals have not been enough to offset the growing teacher wage penalty
Teacher wage and compensation penalties grew over the recovery since 2010
