Around the country, it is not unusual for school districts to subsidize teachers' housing.
I doubt that the Republican governors of Florida, Wisconsin, and Ohio would lessen their war on unions, but teachers would be more likely to forget earlier insults if the Obama administration took a clear stand and showed that the federal government will no longer subsidize teacher-bashing.
This year schools were opened two weeks late, exam results have not been released and learning only resumed in some urban areas for the few who could afford to subsidize teachers' salaries and pay exorbitant tuition fees in US dollars.
Since 2006, Hanban and the College Board have also sent more than 325 volunteer Chinese "guest teachers" to work in American schools with fledgling programs and paying $13,000 to subsidize each teacher's salary for a year.
We don't have parents in the financial industries to subsidize assistant teachers in every classroom, as in the wealthier zones; but we do have a fair share of arts professionals with some flexible time — an actor who organizes our annual talent show and holiday tree sale, for instance, and a poet who devotes time to bringing outside art and writing programs into classrooms.
"But for California's 'agency shop' arrangement, Ms. Friedrichs would not pay fees to or otherwise subsidize the teachers' union," the lawsuit states.
Twelve years later, DonorsChoose.org has received more than 1.5 million contributions subsidizing 250,000 teacher requests.
To the Editor: While I strongly support increased foreign language instruction in public schools, I was dismayed to read that the Chinese government is subsidizing language teachers' salaries in the United States.
Congress might want to subsidize movement of teachers from states whose pension contribution rates are low to those where they are high, and make other adjustments.
I had a friend who used to insist at the end of his meals that he would gladly pay a twenty-five-per-cent gratuity if the server swore solemnly that none of it would go toward subsidizing an acting teacher, especially a Method acting teacher.
Congress should pass elements of the president's jobs plan, he said, like one that would subsidize the employment of teachers and first responders to emergencies.
