NJ faces major financial troubles so the Governor wants to freeze teachers salaries and have them contribute 1% of their salary to their healthcare. As it is now, they pay nothing for medical, dental and vision. The governor is receiving fierce opposition with this. In fact the head of the teachers union issued a statement to members encouraging them to pray for the governors death.
So I did a search on a very ordinary middle class town in NJ that I briefly lived in years ago to check teachers salaries to see if it made sense to have the teachers contribute 1% toward there own benefits. Here is what I found.
http://php.app.com/edstaff/results2....&Submit=Submit
In addition to these salaries we have to factor in that teacher do not work a full day nor full year and by statute have first rights to any "part time" jobs as sports coaches (where they have to have zero qualifications).
So what do you think?