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The lure of better-paid defense jobs is draining teachers from the schools. Rural schools face a shortage of 50,000 teachers in the coming year. Average salary of rural teachers is $900 a year; more than half of all the nation’s teachers get under $2,000.
Because of these findings the National Education Association last week sent an SOS to school boards throughout the land, urged them to up teachers’ pay. Said N.E.A.: “The longtime battle for democracy will be won in the schools. … It is of utmost importance to the American way of life that we do not weaken our longtime defense . . . [as] was done in the War of 1917-18.”
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