In his State of the State address on Sunday evening, Gov. Greg Abbott made teacher pay raises an emergency item for this session as he hopes to make Texas number one in education. His emergency item allows the state legislature the ability to pass a teacher pay raise in the first two months of the session. "We must fund and train the best teachers," Abbott said during his speech. "That starts with giving our teachers a pay raise this session. To increase teachers' average salary to an all-time high." The governor did not mention how large of a pay raise he wanted to see or how it was going to be paid.
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Michael Spurlin
ATPE
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