Teacher Salaries Question: According to the most recent information available, teachers in the United States are paid an average annual salary of $54,819.
Do you think that these teacher salaries should increase, decrease, or stay about the same?
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Teacher Salaries
Teacher Benefits Question: Some argue that teachers around the nation should be required to pay from their salaries 20 percent of the cost of their health care and pension benefits, with the government covering the remainder.
What do you think of this proposal?
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Teacher Benefits
Teacher Tenure Question: Teachers with tenure cannot be dismissed unless a school district follows detailed procedures. Some say that tenure protects teachers from being fired for arbitrary reasons. Others say that it makes it too difficult to replace ineffective teachers. We want to know what you think of tenure.
Do you favor or oppose offering tenure to teachers across the country?
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Teacher Tenure
Merit Pay Question:
Do you favor or oppose basing the salaries of teachers around the nation, in part, on their students’ academic progress on state tests?
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Merit Pay
Teachers Unions Question: Some people say that teacher unions are a stumbling block to school reform. Others say that unions fight for better schools and better teachers. What do you think?
Do you think teacher unions have a generally positive effect on your local schools, or do you think they have a generally negative effect?
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Teachers Unions
Vouchers Question: A proposal has been made that would use government funds to help pay the tuition of low-income students whose families would like them to attend private schools.
Would you favor or oppose this proposal?
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Vouchers
Charter Schools Question: As you may know, many states permit the formation of charter schools, which are publicly funded but are not managed by the local school board. These schools are expected to meet promised objectives, but are exempt from many state regulations.
Do you support or oppose the formation of charter schools?
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Charter Schools
Digital Learning Question: Another proposal has been made to allow high school students across the country to receive credit for state-approved courses taken over the internet.
Would you favor or oppose such a proposal?
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Digital Learning
Common Standards Question: For holding schools accountable, should all state governments adopt the same set of educational standards and give the same tests in math, science and reading?
Or do you think that there should be different standards and tests in different states?
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Common Standards
Testing and Accountability Question: Some have proposed that the federal government continue to require that all students be tested in math and reading each year in grades 3-8 and once in high school.
Do you support or oppose this proposal?
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Testing and Accountability
School Spending Question:
Do you think that government funding for public schools in your district should increase, decrease, or stay about the same?
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School Spending
Class Size Reduction Question: Reducing average class sizes by 3 students would cost roughly the same amount as increasing teacher salaries by $10,000.
Which do you think is the best use of funds for schools across the country, increasing teacher salaries by $10,000 or reducing class size by 3 students?
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Class Size Reduction
Economic Integration Question: Should school districts across the country take the family income of students into account when assigning students to schools
in order to ensure that each school has a mix of students from different backgrounds?
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Economic Integration
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