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Teaching salary summary page for the state of Texas Salary range (2007 – 2008): $40,800 - $66,231 Average teacher salary (2007 – 2008): $41,503 Average beginning teacher salary (2007 – 2008): $27,320 Median household income (2006): $43,425 Median house price (Aug. to Oct. 2006): $144,900 Per-Pupil Spending: $6,746 Cents spent on benefits for every dollar paid as salary: 15.1˘ Grade: Summary: Texas high schools added a new topic to their curricula and that was giving students formal parenting advice because of the increase in the statistics of children having children. The legislature established the program to address parenting skills and responsibilities, relationship skills and prevention of family violence. The program covers information on child support, legal rights and other responsibilities that come with parenthood along with subject areas of money management, communication skills and marriage preparation. The curriculum was developed by the Attorney General’s office which is in charge of cracking down on fathers who fail to support their children. Texas also established the Center for Safe Communities and Schools which serves as the central location for school safety information. TxSSC was created and authorized by 77th Texas legislature to provide schools with research, training and technical assistance aimed to reduce youth violence. The safety training promotes positive school environment and proactive safety measures including collection of school safety data to be utilized by the state and for public information. Storing information of the children’s Social Security numbers, dates of birth and other sensitive information were being outsourced to a private company. The data storage includes kindergarten reading test scores. The database contains additional vital information like gender, parent’s names and addresses and their individual school identification numbers. State officials fully guarantee safety of this unusual arrangement. Oz systems had an amazing security features that protects database from any identity thieves. Solar energy system from SECO has been supplying small scale solar energy to schools. The schools had taken advantage on first hand renewable energy and energy conservation hands-on learning tools for their students and staff training. Texas schools received a solar panel system, web-based monitoring system that supplements electricity received from a utility company. SECO provides training and lesson plans for teachers on renewable energy fact sheets. Watt Watchers of Texas is an initiative that utilizes human resources specifically students in Texas to help save energy and money. Students’ patrols their school, look for empty classrooms with lights on, turn out the lights, and then leaves a ticket for the teacher. Students were made to understand the effort of energy conservation by converting wasted hours to its monetary value in terms of district expenditures. Watts on schools system is capable of providing enough energy each month for free to each of the participating schools. The power that is generated is even enough to supply a typical Texas home. The schools were experiencing great cost savings from this besides the free training and knowledge given to the students for free. Texas provides education and involves students, teachers, and community to understanding its application especially on the solar energy cost savings measures. Links: AFT teacher’s salaries in Texas Return to the Average Teacher Salary Main Page
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