Issue Position: Investing in our Teachers and Classrooms

Issue Position

During this session, we renewed our commitment to school choice with a bill to expand popular school voucher programs like the Family Empowerment Scholarship. Now that program will be able to serve thousands more students.

We also increased the total funds per student in public schools by nearly $200 each -- that means districts will receive almost $7,900 in funding per student this coming year.

Public school classroom teachers will benefit from our $500 million budget proposal for teacher salary increases.

We have directed school districts to use their cut of these funds to get every full-time teacher as close to a $47,500 minimum salary as possible (and scaling up the base for veterans, too).

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