Local Current Event: Senate Approves Pay Freeze for Minnesota Schools

http://www.kare11.com/news/schools/education/article/906604/213/Senate-approves-pay-freeze-for-Minnesota-schools

The Minnesota senate approved a two year pay freeze for teachers and other public employees, this also probides anyone from going on strike. One of the sponsors says they are actually trying to save teachers positions by keeping the pay rate flat. They mentioned the idea of capping superintendents pay by $130,000 a year, but they ruled that as irrelevant to the topic since it's based on just teachers salary.

I think this is scary to think that they are now freezing teachers pay because we are out of money in our education system. It just makes you wonder what they are going to do next, I think the teachers earned there pay increase and should continue to get an increase if they are doing their job. It's unfortunite that teachers already get paid so little and now they want to make it even less. Something reallly needs to be done about our education system and how this money and budget is being looked at. The mentioned in the article that the purpose of this was to save teaching positions, but it seems like more than just having a wage freeze needs to be done. It really makes you wonder what our future is going to be like as teachers and where we are going to go from here.