Teachers earning $125,000 a year – Can every school afford to get the best?

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Teachers earning $125,000 a year – Can every school afford to get the best?

On June 6, 2009, in Teaching, by Raju Gupta

NYtimes posted a story on new charter school. It’s inspiring to see that Mr. Zeke M. Vanderhoek founder of a test preparation company Manhattan GMAT is assembling a dream team of teachers to kick start a charter school.

I agree with the approach that excellent and passionate teachers / tutors are the key ingredients to success. Seems, the money is not an issue and this charter school can afford to pay up to $125,000/year to teachers. I believe that Mr. Vanderhoek background as an entrepreneur, experience in tutoring, and a dream team will generate a positive outcome for this experiment.

The question is, with financial, union and political challenges out there, can this experiment be scaled easily?

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Raju Gupta

Raju is passionate about empowering students and educators with technology and tools. While tutoring his niece for the SAT he recognized the lack of helpful tools available and founded Socrato in 2007 to fill that void. Prior to Socrato Raju was an early member of two successful startups, Sapient which went public in 1996 and ArcStream which got bought out by Keane in 2005. Raju is a data junkie and enjoys playing basketball in his free time.

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