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Germantown Increasing Teacher Pay as Part of State Mandate
- North Carolina lawmakers proposed a two-year budget plan on 2025-05-19 to raise teacher and state employee pay and cut DEI funding statewide.
- The proposal follows ongoing struggles to recruit and retain educators due to stagnant wages and competition with better-paying private sector jobs.
- The budget would increase starting teacher pay from $41,000 to $50,000 by 2026-27, raise veteran teachers’ salaries by about 6.4%, and eliminate over $10 million from DEI programs.
- House Appropriations Chair William Brisson said eliminating DEI programs that are 'light on accountability and heavy on cost' redirects funds to invest in students and teachers.
- If enacted, the plan would make North Carolina's starting teacher pay the highest in the Southeast while signaling a focus on workforce retention and tax reductions.
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House unveils new NC budget. Here’s what’s inside:
North Carolina House leaders unveiled their state budget proposal on Monday, which aims for significantly higher salaries for teachers and other state employees. Like the Senate’s proposal last month, the House’s budget will cost $66 billion over the next two fiscal years, but where exactly the money would go varies greatly under each chamber’s wish list. The House aims to bolster pay for many taxpayer-funded jobs. To do so, House leaders plan…
Watauga Democrat
House budget ups teacher pay, restores master’s pay, and gives a raise
(The Center Square) – Starting teacher pay in North Carolina would rise to $50,000 annually, master’s pay for educators would be restored, and the raises for teachers over the next two years would be 8.7% if the state budget proposed…
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