The union campaign of agitation and distortion is a national pox. Reports from all over the country tell us we have a shortage of math, science and special education teachers. State Sen. Bill Raggio discovered this conundrum first-hand. The Reno Republican's proposal to give a 5 percent pay raise to teachers certified in math, science and special education ran into a brick wall of union resistance. Antonucci goes on to say that the qualitative problems dwarf the quantitative concerns.
Higher salaries do indeed attract more of the best and the brightest.
Unfortunately, higher salaries also attract the worst and the dimmest. If you can't tell the difference between the two, you are wasting the public's money. As we now know, union-run government schools are not particularly adept at, or interested in, assessing competence. Rewarding excellence isn't even on the priority list. So when the subject of raises arises, taxpayers are ushered into a theater of the absurd.