Take a look at the states that surround North Carolina.
While NC shares a border with 4 other states, it does not take long to travel to some others.
Some lawmakers like to construct “favorable” comparisons to other southeastern states to make the argument that we as a state are fairly treating our teachers.
Hogwash.
For this particular post, just focus on states that pay teachers more for having a graduate degree beyond a bachelor’s. Let that be yet another way to view how the pathetic decrees from the North Carolina General Assembly have decimated the condition of public education here in NC.
Of the 10 states in the map above, guess how many give teachers a raise for having a graduate degree obtained after 2014?
9 of them. The only one that does not is North Carolina.
Here’s a table of how they work:
You can take a look yourself at each state’s salary schedules.
Alabama:
Mississippi:
Georgia:
Florida:
South Carolina:
North Carolina:
Tennessee:
Kentucky:
Virginia:
West Virginia:
