<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=3>Interesting, but I wonder:
<BR>(a) if it is only full-time college and university teachers, so that the
<BR>part-time adjunct is removed from the equasion, thus inflating the figure;
<BR>(b) how much the pre-K and K teacher salary is undercut by the inclusion of
<BR>very low wage child care workers who work outside of a school setting;
<BR>(c) where the elementary and secondary school teacher would fall.
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<BR>As a general rule, K-12 teachers are the most poorly paid professionals with
<BR>that level of education.
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<BR> all women men
<BR>Teachers, college and university 953 859 1038
<BR>Teachers, kindergarten and pre-K 440 442 *
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<BR>Maids and housemen 296 289 330
<BR>Janitors and cleaners 324 293 351
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<BR>*too few to provide a statically reliable estimate
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<BR>Leo Casey
<BR>United Federation of Teachers
<BR>260 Park Avenue South
<BR>New York, New York 10010-7272 (212-598-6869)
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<BR>Power concedes nothing without a demand.
<BR>It never has, and it never will.
<BR>If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
<BR>Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation are men who
<BR>want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without thunder and
<BR>lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters.
<BR><P ALIGN=CENTER>-- Frederick Douglass --
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