Amid controversy over woke agendas and declining test scores, a call for higher salaries for America’s public school teachers has gained bipartisan support.
In revisiting an idea first introduced last year by Democrats, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) has re-proposed tripling federal funding of teachers’ paychecks that would guarantee them a minimum annual salary of $60,000.
Sanders, who recently assumed command over the influential Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, wants to secure the increased funding under legislation called the Teacher Pay Act that he says he intends to introduce.
He proposes raising the funds for the guaranteed wage threshold by increasing the estate tax on America’s wealthiest taxpayers….