• pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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    7 days ago

    What are you trying to say? Public school teacher’s salaries are funded federally. Also, the cost of the Iran War alone could help pay teachers more. Instead trump’s goon squad is cutting education and making it more christian.

    The truth is that it depends on whether the teacher is working for a private or a public school. If he or she belongs to a public school, the money he receives comes from the government, related and concerned government agencies, and the taxes of the people of the United States. Same goes for all the maintenance crew, cafeteria servants, guards, and all the staff of the school. On the other hand, teachers who work for a private school get their salary from the school itself. The money being paid to them comes from the students

    https://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/funding/

        • حمید پیام عباسی@crazypeople.online
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          Your source doesn’t state that the money comes from the federal government. It says broadly that it comes from the people of the United States, this is true, typically school taxes are levied by the local government and disbursed to the the school to make payroll.

          According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the federal government provides less than 10% of total funding for public K-12 education. The source you provided uses ‘government’ as a catch-all term, but in practice, school boards and local property taxes are what determine and pay teacher salaries. Unless a teacher is working in a high-poverty school receiving Title I federal grants, their paycheck is almost entirely funded by the specific taxpayers in their city and state, not the federal treasury.

          https://bipartisanpolicy.org/explainer/u-s-department-of-education-101-federal-funding-in-k-12-education/

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            7 days ago

            You’re right

            Public schools receive funding from three different government sources: local, state, and federal. Local and state governments contribute the majority of funding to support public school systems, while the federal government provides a small fraction (only about 8% on average). Even with recent infusions of federal funding related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal share remains the smallest.

            https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED656592.pdf

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              Three different sources of funding and teachers are still having to buy their own class supplies with already meager incomes.

              What a freaking disgrace.