At House Education Hearing, Lawmakers Differ Sharply on Why Teachers Are Underpaid

Education Week: At the first House education committee hearing on K-12 schools this Congress, Democrats in control of the committee pushed Tuesday for more resources from the federal government to raise teacher pay and repair schools. But Republicans said that education spending increases have failed to adequately address these issues or to help students academically.

Democrats took control of the House in the November midterms for the first time since 2011, and Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Va., now the committee chairman, chose to highlight "underpaid teachers and crumbling schools" in his first hearing.

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