California’s schools are hiring teachers again. But California’s colleges aren’t producing enough new teachers to meet the demand. So where will the state's new teachers come from?If I retire from California, though, my retirement pay will be higher than it would be in Texas. Then I can move!
Not from other states, if recent history is a guide.
From 2003 through 2016, about 18,000 more elementary and secondary school teachers left California than came from other states, according to a Bee review of U.S. Census Bureau data. The worst losses were during the height of the housing boom, when home prices were peaking, but they have continued throughout the economic recovery.
California saw the largest net loss of teachers to Texas. About 6,000 more teachers left California for Texas than came here from the Lone Star State from 2003 through 2016.
The average teacher salary in Texas is about $52,000, far below the average teacher salary of $77,000 in California, according to the National Education Association. But when adjusted for cost of living, teachers in Texas make about as much as their peers in California.
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Tuesday, May 29, 2018
One Reader Has Been After Me To Move To Texas For Years
I wouldn't be the only one:
I have a coworker that saved up for retirement and moved to Idaho. He's living the life there. I might do something similar when I retire in 40ish years
ReplyDeleteCalifornia bans affirmative action in its university admissions. Texas "won" a lawsuit that allowed it to continue using affirmative action. California is right. Texas is wrong.
ReplyDeleteEverything is relative. Right now the cost of living in Texas is more reasonable than California. But as we get influxes of people from the Left Coast I fear they will kill the goose that laid the golden egg. At that point I move to rural Arkansas or Colorado.
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