MA: More and Better Teachers Act (Failed)

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Sponsor: New Canadaland

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New Canadaland, what do you estimate the total costs of this legislation would be?

[Boston Bread]

In the debate on the Educational Freedom Act we did not arrive at an estimate of how many students there are in failing schools. My estimates suggest ~5% of Mideast students are in a failing public school by the definition of the act, and that this act will result in 40% more teachers at those schools, or about 2% more teachers overall.


With 3.3 million public school teachers in Atlesia's states I estimate there are 825k teachers in the Mideast. So that makes 17k teachers to be hired. An average teacher in the Mideast makes $55000, although initial costs are expected to be lower since the average entry wage is $35000. However with section 2 average teacher wage will be increased 6.5% to 58.6k.

The cost will be $2.5 billion per year for teacher bonuses, $770 million per year to hire additional teachers, and $30 million a year for miscellaneous items and administration, for a total of $3.3 billion per year.

I would like to hear what parts of the bill my fellow legislators like or dislike. Or if anybody has more accurate statistics. When it comes to helping the region's disadvantaged children I believe the costs should not be the overriding concern. In fact I believe it is suggestible to either lower the threshold at which a school is considered failing or introduce a provision for other schools which are not "failing" but still performing at an unsatisfactory level to receive additional teachers.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

I think most failing schools would love to hire additional teachers. The question is whether they have the funds.

[Boston Bread]

The government can cover the funds, I found it to be under a billion per year because of the strict definition of failing schools.

[PPT Spiral]

I suppose that with no further debate, this bill will now come to a final vote. You have the next 24 hours to vote Aye, Nay, or Abstain.

[PPT Spiral]

Nay

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Nay

[Boston Bread]

Aye

[PPT Spiral]

Though it seems like I'm out of the Assembly now, this bill has failed.

[tmthforu94]

New Canadaland, while there are some definite amendments that I think need to be made to this, I hope you can re-introduce it so we can begin discussions again. Education has always been a top priority of mine.

[Hatman 🍁]

Education is pretty important, we should find something in the budget to cut to compensate and re-submit.