>No, professionally minded teachers do no such thing. The pay at private and charter schools is roughly 50% to 70% of publics' pay. Is that the average or medi

>No, professionally minded teachers do no such thing. The pay at private and charter schools is roughly 50% to 70% of publics' pay. Is that the average or median figure for pay? Because I can tell you right now that in LA and San Diego the most common starting place for teachers earning or who have just earned their credentials will either be juvie or low income neighborhoods albeit this is from a highschool perspective so maybe I'm simply wrong with respect to the article. Maybe if you account for public schools in higher income neighborhoods then teaching publically remains competitive and I failed to acknowledge that in my earlier post but the overall picture for a starting teacher is none the less that they will work to either escape public school or ascend out of bad/high-turnover schools.