Teacher Benefits Quotes

Liberals spend a whole lot of time trying to convince us they love teachers, but dig even skin deep into the matter, and it becomes evident that liberals hate teachers.

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.

Teachers make a difference, and we would serve our students better by focusing on attracting and retaining the quality teachers by raising teacher pay.

Well, just as in the quality of public schools, there is massive disparity and the compensation given to the public school teachers.

We definitely have to take care of our teachers more. Raise the pay. Give them the tools they need.

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.

Our teachers are valuable, and our public policy should reflect that.

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

All of these 'protections' were put into place to provide public school teachers with the kind of job security and cushy work rules that United Auto Workers have enjoyed.

The fundamental problem for the teaching profession is how undervalued it is and how underpaid teachers are.

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

My mother was a teacher for 40 years. She was part of the United Teachers of New Orleans.

By resisting almost any change aimed at improving our public schools, teachers' unions have become a ripe target for reformers across the ideological spectrum.

Teachers who have committed their lives to the classroom deserve better than our politics has given them.

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.

I think good teachers are underpaid.

I respect public employees and school teachers. They deserve a secure retirement.

I have fought to protect those benefits that ensure better salaries for teachers across the Nation such as grants to pay off student loans and funding for Teach for America. Still, we must all do more to show our continued appreciation for our Nation's leading role models.

Unionized teachers have destroyed much of the state school system.

Israeli teachers are not required to hold an academic degree, and their salaries are the lowest in the Western world.

A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.

Teachers need to be paid like professionals.

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

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.