The Future of Public Education

Opening Day Speech by the President of the New Trier High School Education Association: 8/22/19

Text: https://medium.com/@oripsolob/the-future-of-public-education-d7b5b00968e7

Transcript

2. The FUTURE of Public Education
4. “…and teachers educate them all.” “…because we all deserve to get to be someone.”
5. The PAST
11. Birdwell Butterly Karakosta Stauder NTHSEA’s #thefutureisfemale
12. The PRESENT
13. 5% (2018) vs 21% (2010)
14. “Teacher Pay Penalty”
15. “[T]he percent by which public school teachers are paid less than comparable workers.”
16. Teachers now earn a record 18.7 percent less in wages than comparable workers (regression-adjusted). SOURCE: Economic Policy Institute ( 0 = comparable workers ) “Teacher Pay Penalty” “Teacher Pay Penalty” source: EPI
17. Teachers now earn a record 18.7 percent less in wages than comparable workers (regression-adjusted). SOURCE: Economic Policy Institute ( f ) ( all teachers ) ( m ) ( 0 = comparable workers ) “Teacher Pay Penalty”
18. Teachers now earn a record 18.7 percent less in wages than comparable workers (regression-adjusted). SOURCE: Economic Policy Institute
19. “Teachers are more likely to quit when they work in districts with lower wages and when their salaries are low relative to alternative wage opportunities, especially in high-demand fields like math and science.”
20. SOURCE: Economic Policy Institute
21. ARIZONA
22. NORTH CAROLINA
23. OKLAHOMA
24. COLORADO
29. “New teachers can’t afford the median rent almost anywhere in the U.S.”
30. “New teachers can’t afford the median rent almost anywhere in the U.S.”
46. $38,000,000,000
47. “…to offer the company’s vaping education program...to middle school and high school students who faced suspension for using cigarettes.”
48. $940,000
50. The FUTURE The FUTURE
51. The FUTURE
52. “Political ideology is essential here….And when we study politics, many think it is something that does not affect us, but actually, it concerns our reality, it concerns every citizen’s issues, the people’s issues.”
53. “Anyone who thinks they are too good or too smart to be involved in politics will be ruled by those who are neither good nor smart.”
70. 1) Lobby
71. 2) Vote
72. 3) Encourage
73. “The end of all education should surely be service to others.”
74. “To commit minds to inquiry, hearts to compassion, and lives to the service of humanity.”