Jeb Bush Quotes

Paying teachers more improves student achievement.

In many ways, education is a lousy business. Teachers are not normal economic actors; almost all of them work for less money than they might fetch in some other industry, given their skills and advanced degrees.

You can get rid of the teacher certification requirements, and you're still not going to have a rush of incredibly high-quality people going into teaching as long as teachers are valued in the way they currently are. The way we value people is by how much we pay them.

I think good teachers are underpaid.

Given the professionalism of Michigan teachers, I think they're not teaching because of the financial rewards.

To encourage more top-caliber students to choose teaching, teachers should be paid a lot more, with starting salaries more in the range of $60,000 and potential earnings of as much as $150,000.

Would you make it [teaching] more lucrative, increase the salaries of the women engaged in the noble work of educating our future Presidents, Senators, and Congressmen.

We don’t get the quality of people going into teaching that other nations do…. When people go teacher bashing, they are making the problem worse.

If we freed up all the money in the certification process, think about how much more money we'd have to put into teacher salaries.

We can not wait until we have enough trained people willing to work at a teacher's salary and under conditions imposed upon teachers in order to improve what happens in the classroom.

I think teaching should be a vocation, and they should be paid more for it.

There are absolutely lots of teachers who are trying to come into the profession, but they are not attracted enough to say, 'I'm going to switch careers to do it,' or they are often not retained... because the salaries and the compensation aren't there to make it happen.

I am deeply concerned with the diminution of the teaching strength of the country as a result of the disproportionately low salaries that are paid to teachers throughout the country.

Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America.

Why don't we have enough teachers of math and science in the public schools? One answer is well, if they knew the subject well, they'd also know enough to work for Google or Goldman Sachs or God knows where.

The impending teacher shortage is the most critical education issue we will face in the next decade.

If teaching isn't rewarding and challenging, we're going to continue to lose our best teachers to work in other fields.

To get enough of the teachers we need, teaching has to be a great job where talented people are supported and rewarded.

It is vital that teachers can be paid more without having to leave the classroom. This will be particularly important to schools in the most disadvantaged areas as it will empower them to attract and recruit the best teachers.

Barack Obama wants teacher service scholarships.

Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.

There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 - and 11,000 higher than 1997.

Teaching is the profession that makes all other professions possible and yet we do not treat teachers as professionals.

… while they're adding teachers in places like South Korea, we're laying them off in droves. It's unfair to our kids. It undermines their future and ours. And it has to stop. Pass this bill, and put our teachers back in the classroom where they belong.

If we want to recruit and retain high-quality teachers, it starts with a fair wage, adequate working conditions, and the resources and support to succeed. Remember: teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions.