Dr. Bob Luebke, senior fellow at the Center for Effective Education at the John Locke Foundation, discusses changes in N.C. teacher pay over the past decade. Learn more here: “Teacher pay: A look at the last decade.”
Locke’s Bob Luebke examines last decade of N.C. teacher pay data
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