With World Teachers’ Day around the corner and teaching among the lowest-paid professions that require a bachelor’s degree, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2018’s Best & Worst States for Teachers as well as accompanying videos.
In order to help educators find the best opportunities and teaching environments in the U.S., WalletHub analyzed the 50 states and the District of Columbia across 22 key metrics, ranging from teachers’ income growth potential to pupil-teacher ratio to teacher safety.
Best States for Teachers
Worst States for Teachers
1
New York
42
West Virginia
2
Connecticut
43
District of Columbia
3
Minnesota
44
Oklahoma
4
Illinois
45
South Carolina
5
North Dakota
46
Mississippi
6
Pennsylvania
47
Florida
7
Wyoming
48
Louisiana
8
New Jersey
49
North Carolina
9
Maryland
50
Arizona
10
Ohio
51
Hawaii
Best vs. Worst
To view the full report and your state or the District’s rank, please visit:
https://wallethub.com/edu/best-and-worst-states-for-teachers/7159/
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NEA president calls for full, transparent investigation into more sexual assault allegations against Kavanaugh
If Senate fails to fully, openly investigate Kavanaugh, his nomination must be withdrawn
WASHINGTON — A second woman, Deborah Ramirez who attended Yale University with Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, has accused him of sexual assault. The new allegations arrive the same day his first accuser, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, committed to testifying about her own allegations before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday. More allegations appear to be imminent.
The following is a statement that can be attributed to NEA President Lily Eskelsen García:
“In light of these new disturbing allegations of more sexual assault by Judge Brett Kavanaugh, the Senate Judiciary Committee must hit the pause button. The Senate has a moral obligation and civic duty to take each of these allegations seriously. Before any further consideration can be given to his nomination, Kavanaugh must be thoroughly investigated by the FBI, and the findings must be fully transparent to the public. Young people around the country are watching, and it is vital that the seriousness of sexual assault is demonstrated.
“Americans have the right to know about Kavanaugh’s character and fitness for a lifetime appointment to our nation’s highest court. If the Senate continues to refuse to call for a full investigation of these credible allegations, Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination needs to be withdrawn. He is not qualified for a lifetime appointment to our nation’s highest court.”
Follow on twitter at @NEAmedia and @Lily_NEA
Keep up with the conversation on social media at #StopKavanaugh
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The National Education Association is the nation’s largest professional employee organization, representing more than 3 million elementary and secondary teachers, higher education faculty, education support professionals, school administrators, retired educators and students preparing to become teachers. Learn more at www.nea.org.
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Four Logan City Council Members Endorse Eric Eliason for Congress
LOGAN, UT (9/24/2018) -
In an unusual nod to a political outsider, four out of five members of Logan’s City Council have endorsed Eric Eliason in the race for U.S. Congress in Utah’s first district.
Council members Amy Anderson, Tom Jensen, Herm Olsen, and Jeannie Simmonds represent a variety of political viewpoints, but support United Utah candidate Eric Eliason in an election cycle marked by voter frustration.
The first third-party candidate to participate in a Congressional Debate in Utah’s first district, Eliason poses a new challenge to long-time incumbent Rob Bishop, who has enjoyed little opposition in his 16 years as a legislator.
Quote from Amy Anderson:
Eric’s commitment to accountability in government and desire to build an atmosphere of openness and cooperation in Congress is refreshing. If you want to see straightforward people in government, join me in supporting Eric Eliason.
Quote from Tom Jensen:
I urge all to take a serious look at Eric. Instead of being funded by out-of-state PAC influences, Eric is funded by local citizens and himself. He's a successful businessman with genuine concerns for our nation.
Quote from Eric Eliason:
I’m humbled by these endorsements. I know that it takes courage to step away from the political status quo and endorse a third-party candidate, and I am grateful to these individuals for doing so. We’ve found great support among local elected officials who recognize that the public is best served when representatives are more responsive to the concerns of their constituents than parties or campaign financiers.
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Cancel Kavanaugh
By Matthew Johnson
609 words
It is shameful that we are still talking about Bret Kavanaugh. He should be gone. Finished. Yesterday’s news.
After the latest allegation of sexual assault against him by one of his classmates at Yale, a clear pattern has been established that reveals the Supreme Court nominee to be a drunken partygoer who has gone at least as far as to expose his genitalia to a semi-conscious, inebriated female and attempt to force himself on another — apparently buoyed by positive affirmation from his meat-head male friends. It’s highly unlikely that this was the extent of his sexually aggressive behavior. After all, it is not as if he were ever held accountable for any of it (he may well not be held accountable it now) — and when has a powerful man ever changed for the better if not held accountable?
The good news is there’s a real opportunity to not only bring about justice for the survivors of his transgressions but also to bring about a political victory that goes beyond keeping him from becoming the next conservative ideologue on the court, establishing a clear 5-4 majority of reaction. This victory would also go beyond potentially blocking Trump’s vain attempt to escape his own comeuppance through packing the judiciary in his favor. This victory would be for women and for all those who support their rights.
I would see it as a victory for myself personally. I do not want to live in an America where a drunken frat boy who sexually assaults women can become a Supreme Court justice. I already live in an America where an ill-mannered, narcissistic moron (accused of sexual impropriety by more than a dozen women himself) is president. Enough is enough.
I am worried that boys will grow up and be told by their relatives: “Don’t worry, Jimmy, you can pull out your penis at a party, wave it at an unsuspecting woman, and still succeed in life. You can even go on to a position of power that will enable you to roll back women’s rights on a much larger scale.”
If Kavanaugh supported women’s rights in the legal and political sense while behaving badly toward them, he would still be an awful choice for the Court — but he’s guilty on both counts of being anti-woman. He has either been evasive or skeptical on Roe V. Wade, which is the established, enlightened law of the land that, at least legally speaking, liberates women from unwanted pregnancies — which could have been the result of Kavanaugh’s first reported assault had it not been inadvertently interrupted. This connection between his behavior and his politics seems lost on his Republican supporters and the old-white-male gentleman’s club that is the Republican side of the Senate. They insist that he’s a good man because to them a good man is anti-woman in his politics and legal opinions while masking this truth behind an adoring wife and children. That he drove his daughter to soccer practice is quite a low bar when judging a Supreme Court justice.
This cynical view of men by not only Republican diehards but some of the wider public (thinking of those who have said things like, ‘all 17-year-old boys assault women at parties on occasion’) is appalling. Men should be held to a higher standard and should, in turn, hold themselves to a higher standard. This will be more difficult to achieve if the Senate allows a corrupted member of our gender to become a potential role model — not to mention a powerful judge of the behavior of others. We must judge him accordingly and give his victims and the American people the justice they deserve.
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Matt Johnson is an author and activist.
