Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) released a statement in support of Governor Tom Wolf’s plan to raise the minimum educator salary to $45,000 per year:
“Teachers should be paid as the highly-educated, highly-trained professionals they are. My father, Governor Bob Casey, led the last successful bipartisan effort to increase the minimum educator salary in Pennsylvania more than 30 years ago. Since that time, the minimum teacher salary has remained $18,500 while the demands, requirements, and expectations of the profession have risen dramatically. I applaud Governor Wolf’s proposal to raise the minimum educator salary to $45,000 per year so that we stop the cycle of asking more and more of our teachers while offering them less. We need to do everything we can to recruit and retain our teacher workforce and acknowledge their critical role in educating our children to compete in a global economy and securing our Nation’s future.”
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