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Teaching salary summary page for the state of Colorado
Salary range: $31,675 – 73,437
Average teacher salary: $33,679
Average beginning teacher salary: $34,200
Median household income: $65,900
Median house price: $200,500
Per-Pupil Spending: $6,884
Cents spent on benefits for every dollar paid as salary: 18.8¢
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Colorado is working towards obtaining better funding for public schools. This is in response to high turnover of teachers and state crisis in finding qualified ones. One of the resolutions that was made to meet student’s need was their latest move to waive licensing rules for Douglas Country School District. It further approved the district to operate its own licensing and training program for hard to fill teacher’s position. They were pushed to approve the waiver for the first time in Colorado history because of the scaling teacher’s crisis. Still the state reserves the right to review the training programs twice a year. The different perspectives of US states to find ways to fund public education and determine teachers salaries has tied Colorado teachers to a kind of pay that was based on what and where they teach and how well their students perform on state test. For three years there was not much difference noted in the teacher’s pay scale. Colorado even lacks data to make any further solutions for their ailing system of education and high turnover of teachers. Governor Bill Ritter recently announced his education reforms where one is the decision to track long term studies of children. They are trying to make proactive decision getting specific details from the time these students start school until they enter the workforce. Meanwhile P20 Education Coordinating Council worked to streamlining transition period of students from high school to college which they feel is needed to step forward on retention and completion of collegiate degrees. The most awaited part of the recommendation is the increase of teachers pay which was supported by many students nationwide. On the other hand two state representatives were trying to make a Vegas out of Colorado by working on votes for a no limit gambling policy which they expect would bring in additional funds in annual tax revenue that will impact tourism and higher education. Headaches for funds deficiency lead to headaches on teacher’s retention and better education. Colorado is trying to figure out in the least data available how to cope up with the state crisis if not resolved may hurt the state’s ranking in the future.
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