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McCrory Proposes Teacher Pay Raise

WFAE | By Gwendolyn Glenn
Published April 6, 2016 at 10:54 AM EDT
Gov. Pat McCrory
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Gov. Pat McCrory

Governor McCrory is proposing an average pay raise of 5 percent for teachers next year. The governor revealed a list of education budget priorities in a speech in his hometown of Jamestown Tuesday.Gov. McCrory proposes pay raise for teachers

Hesays his proposed raise would increase the average teacher pay to more than $50,000. That would still be much lower than the national average of more than $57,000. Currently, the state’s average teacher salary is about $48,000. That ranks North Carolina as47thin terms of the National Education Association’s pay scale rating.

Gov. Pat McCrory
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Gov. Pat McCrory

McCrory says his budget, which will be released later this month, will also include an average 3.5 percent bonus for teachers and principals. Teachers with more than 24 years of service could rake in $5,000 bonuses. The governor hopes the pay increases will help with retention of teachers. He also wants to spend $2 million on a scholarship program to attract top math and science teachers to the state.  

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Gwendolyn Glenn
Gwendolyn is an award-winning journalist who has covered a broad range of stories on the local and national levels. Her experience includes producing on-air reports for National Public Radio and she worked full-time as a producer for NPR’s All Things Considered news program for five years. She worked for several years as an on-air contract reporter for CNN in Atlanta and worked in print as a reporter for the Baltimore Sun Media Group, The Washington Post and covered Congress and various federal agencies for the Daily Environment Report and Real Estate Finance Today. Glenn has won awards for her reports from the Maryland-DC-Delaware Press Association, SNA and the first-place radio award from the National Association of Black Journalists.
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