WRAL, the NBC affiliate in Raleigh owned by Capitol Broadcasting, is airing Grading Teacher Pay, a documentary which examines the relationship of low teacher pay to educational quality. Grading Teacher Pay airs tomorrow night at 7. It will also be shown at 7 on WILM, the CBS affiliate in Wilmington, N.C., also owned by Capitol. […]
WRAL, the NBC affiliate in Raleigh owned by Capitol Broadcasting, is airing Grading Teacher Pay, a documentary which examines the relationship of low teacher pay to educational quality.
Grading Teacher Pay airs tomorrow night at 7. It will also be shown at 7 on WILM, the CBS affiliate in Wilmington, N.C., also owned by Capitol.
The documentary will also be available for on-demand viewing any time after the premiere television broadcast on April 26 on WRAL.com.
Grading Teacher Pay reveals how the state’s teacher salaries have plummeted to 42nd in the nation and how that is contributing to teacher turnover, shortages and low morale.
North Carolina was once 19th in the nation for teacher pay.
“We’ve always been up near the tops in the South, and yet now we’re below all the states around us,” said Jim Hunt, former governor of North Carolina, who is interviewed in the special along with other policymakers and teachers.
Beginning at 8 in the morning tomorrow, you can go to WRAL.com and search keywords “teacher pay” to see exactly how the state’s teacher pay stacks up against other states and a history of how’s that’s changed in the last 15 years.
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