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Letter: Why teachers should be paid well
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The recent column by Dick Startz on raising teacher pay is a welcome but overdue confirmation of what educators already know: attracting and retaining the best teachers is no different from attracting talent in any profession. It’s about fair pay for the work teachers do. His analysis proves something else educators know: paying teachers what they deserve has ever-expanding economic benefits.