Study: Many Alaska teachers are underpaid, but pay isn’t everything

Many Alaska school districts don’t offer high enough salaries to recruit and retain highly qualified teachers. That’s according to a new study that looks at a possible statewide teacher salary schedule.
But researchers found that a statewide pay schedule would be too expensive, and wouldn’t do enough to solve Alaska’s teacher retention problem.
A first grade class lines up outside of Dillingham Elementary School, spring 2015. (Photo by Hannah Colton/KDLG)
About 65 percent