TODAY is the deadline to vote for SXSW sessions! see link below & take 3 minutes to vote so we together can keep growing public awareness and political will until teachers are paid as the professionals that they are! Nicholas Ferroni Frederick M. Hess Rep. Frederica Wilson @CarlosG97455437

By the Numbers: #Teacher vacancies jump by 51% #educatorshortage ⁦The Teacher Salary Project⁩ k12dive.com/news/teacher-v…

Our teachers deserve better. In most places teachers earn 24% less than comparable college graduates. This must stop – how are we to recruit and retain teachers when most teachers need multiple jobs to do what they love? It’s unacceptable.

Montana is struggling to retain new teachers; experts cite waning education graduates – Daily Montanan dailymontanan.com/2023/09/12/mon…

North Carolina Desperately Needs More Teachers governing.com/education/nort…

America is the only country where a child is killed every hour by gun violence

Pay educators like the expert professionals that they are.

PSA: 📣 🌐 teachergoals.com

Education funding accounts for only 2% of the federal budget but provides huge returns to students & the economy. Gov’t funding expires on 9/30 - now is the time to use CEF's #HearOurEdStories toolkit to tell Congress why education funding matters to you cef.org/advocacy/5%c2%…

Teachers are worth way more than what we give them. Let’s give them a raise and the resources that they need to help our kids thrive.

We need to pay teachers as if the future of our Nation is in their hands – because it is.

We spend over $8 billion a year on teacher attrition. Imagine if we spent the money on teacher pay and resources to actually retain teachers instead.

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ICYMI: Per @RAND, low teacher pay is the #1 reason Black teachers are considering leaving. If you're working to increase teacher diversity but aren't proactively taking steps to increase pay, we urge you to start doing so. rand.org/pubs/research_…

2 out of my 6 Uber drivers this week were teachers.

Something is profoundly wrong with the state of universities in America when the Palestinian President disavows Hamas while student groups from some of our most prestigious universities support the terrorists.

Israel has the ability to kill everyone in Gaza but hasn't because they don't want to kill civilians Hamas wants to kill everyone in Israel but hasn't because they don't have the ability to kill as many civilians as they want to See the difference?

Greg Abbott is trying to defund our schools with a private school voucher scam. Not on our watch. Today I joined my colleagues to introduce the Fully Fund our Future Act which will invest in ALL students and give every teacher a $15,000 raise. #txlege

A new report from Teach Plus and the Center for Black Educator Development (#CBER) has found that students of color and Indigenous students are interested in becoming teachers, but low pay is a major deterrent.

There is no room for antisemitism in America. There is no room for Islamophobia in America. There is no room for hate of any form in America.