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Teacher Pay: 'Guesswork with Footnotes'
An open letter to state Sen. Greg Goode: Your newsletter announcing that Indiana's average teacher pay now surpasses $60,000 is interesting. In my opinion, though, your and the Indiana Republican Party's take on teacher compensation is at best flawed, and more likely destructive. In an essay disseminated by The Indiana Policy Review in 2023, I asked the related question: kAmQxD 8@:?8 7C@> Sde[___ E@ Se_[___ 6?@F89 7@C E62496CDn %@@ >F49n }@E ?62C=J 6?@F89n yFDE C:89En }@ @?6 <?@HD[ 2?5 :?
More Eco-Devo: A Citizen’s Lament
By Ryan Cummins Guest columnist ”Hotel Coming to Site of Old VCSC Building” — Terre Haute Tribune, July 26, 2024 I write to you about another in a long list of eco-devo (economic development) scams, a particularly obscene one. That it is presented as a straight news story in a humdrum manner is even more disheartening. But then, I don’t expect much from local “news” reporters and they rarely disappoint. Here is the key passage: “Phase one of the project will cost more than $40 million.
Ryan Cummins: Teachers would benefit from a free market
“(Gov. Eric) Holcomb supports raising the average Hoosier teacher salary from $56,600 to $60,000 annually. While teaching is a calling and not a career defined simply by pay, our educators deserve a respectable wage. If school systems can’t attract and retain qualified teachers, students suffer.” — Terre Haute Tribune Star editorial, Jan. 25, 2023 By Maj. Ryan Cummins Guest columnist Interesting, but confusing. Is being a teacher a calling?
Teachers would benefit from a free market
"(Gov. Eric) Holcomb supports raising the average Hoosier teacher salary from $56,600 to $60,000 annually. While teaching is a calling and not a career defined simply by pay, our educators deserve a respectable wage. If school systems can’t attract and retain qualified teachers, students suffer." — Terre Haute Tribune Star editorial, Jan. 25, 2023 Interesting, but confusing.
McVitie’s: Britain’s Got Talent Sponsorship 2022
McVitie's, a snack food brand, sponsored the reality TV show Britain's Got Talent to drive relevance, penetration, and differentiation in the UK.
McVitie’s: Britain’s Got Talent Sponsorship 2022
McVitie's, a snack food brand, sponsored the reality TV show Britain's Got Talent to drive relevance, penetration, and differentiation in the UK.
Flashpoint: Why you don't live in Indiana's 'best' town
What will it take for my town — or for your town — to be what the people who live there believe to be best? A hint: It is not parks, jobs, housing, industrial parks, downtowns or any of those things, although you might find them in the better cities and towns.It is when the great number of citizens believe they are responsible for themselves, their families, their neighbors and not the state.
CUMMINS: Top places value personal responsibility
What will it take for my town — or for your town — to be what the people who live there believe to be best? A hint: It is not parks, jobs, housing, industrial parks, downtowns or any of those things, although you might find them in the better cities and towns.It is when the great number of citizens believe they are responsible for themselves, their families, their neighbors and not the state.
Flashpoint: The problem, Mr. Mayor, is spending, not tax caps
By Ryan CumminsIndiana Policy ReviewIt’s municipal budget season and Is anyone else tired of listening to sky-is-falling rhetoric from officeholders unwilling to make hard decisions about spending in a tight economy? Recently, yet another Indiana mayor weighed in on the fiscal “disaster” wrought by property-tax caps.
Flashpoint: My father's store: Are we still 'irrational optimistic'?
By Ryan CumminsIndiana Policy Review FoundationWhen my father started a business, it was a grocery store. It grew into a city-wide family retail operation with four locations in our hometown. That was so even though across the street was a much bigger store selling many of the same things, some of it cheaper.
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