Are these the best and worst states for teachers?

[femmocrat]

1. Pennsylvania:

PA might have been more teacher-friendly before Corebutt, but since he cut $1 billion from education, there have been something like 75,000 teachers who lost their jobs. Although I do remember a former superintendent railing against Ridge about 20 years ago! LOL

He also instituted value-added evaluations from hell. Plus Common Core and more standardized testing are mandated.

And it seems like we are fighting against his pet cause, vouchers, just about every year (except this one, since it is an election year).

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Virginia teachers are very low-paid and receive raises when the legislature decides to give them a measly 1% every few years. It has not yet improved under McAuliffe.... that I know of anyhow. I have a family member teaching in VA. They don't seem to have value-added evaluations yet though. Not sure.