Mayor Michael Bloomberg of New York made a bold, but very sensible budget decision Wednesday. He told the city’s teachers their salaries would be frozen for the next two years so that it would not be necessary to let 4,400 teachers go.
Freezing teacher salaries, let it quickly be said, is not the same as giving no raises. Teachers get what are called step-raises for serving another year, for earning an advanced degree or gaining more academic credits. Those additions to their pay will continue. In New York they range from $400 for a first-year teacher to more than $8,000 for…
Bloomberg sets a good example
