> The only solution will be to raise compensation for teachers and bring labor into the industry and, well, the failure to raise teaching salaries is maybe the

> The only solution will be to raise compensation for teachers and bring labor into the industry and, well, the failure to raise teaching salaries is maybe the single greatest of example of the divergence between what people publicly support and what they actually vote for. It's hard to read sentences like that and wonder "what more do you want?" Yes teachers should get paid more. The average teacher in the SFUSD gets paid ~$84K, which is clearly not enough for the city. But the district has an annual budget of 1.3 billion dollars for less than 50K students. Maybe the district should spend more of the money it already has on teacher salaries instead of wasting money and time on stupid / mismanaged projects[1][2][3]. [1] https://missionlocal.org/2023/12/san-francisco-unified-school-district-payroll-empower-scrapped-dropped/ https://missionlocal.org/2023/12/san-francisco-unified-schoo... [2] https://missionlocal.org/2022/10/firm-awarded-no-bid-contract-to-fix-school-districts-payroll-debacle-has-troubling-history/ https://missionlocal.org/2022/10/firm-awarded-no-bid-contrac... [3] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/23/arts/design/san-francisco-george-washington-mural.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/23/arts/design/san-francisco...