After a certain point, there’s only so much apocalyptic news I can take. I’ll admit it. Sometimes I read a headline like “GOVERNMENT INACTION PUTS WORLD ON TRACK FOR 'CATASTROPHIC' CLIMATE CHANGE, U.N. WARNS,” and just take a deep breath, mutter some curse words into the ether, and then scroll on to the next article… Hey, did you guys hear that Kanye West met with Donald Trump … [Read more...] about The Latest in Signs of Impending Doom: 12 years to change course from disastrous future to horrible future
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More qualified, more educated, less pay: Average teacher salary in Hawai‘i declines 6.4 percent
Contract negotiations may have won Hawai‘i’s teachers nominal pay raises, but data shows that average teacher pay, when adjusted for inflation, is actually lower than it was in 2009. On Sep. 5, The Guardian US published an article headlined “Teacher Pay Drops 5% in Last Decade – Despite Better Qualified Staff,” in which author Erin Durkin looked at research from The Brown … [Read more...] about More qualified, more educated, less pay: Average teacher salary in Hawai‘i declines 6.4 percent