$125K salary for teachers at NYC charter school

A charter school opening this fall in Washington Heights, NYC is seeking to prove what educators have been saying all along–if teachers are paid more, we’d have a better education system.

But sorry teachers, the eight teaching positions at the grade 5-8 school, called the Equity Project, have already been filled.

So what kind of teachers does $125K buy? According to an article yesterday in the New York Times, the staff was selected out of over 600 applicants, 100 of which were interviewed, and will boast two Ivy League degrees, decades of experience, and a PE teacher who used to train Kobe Bryant.

Lets just say expectations for the first class of 120, chosen in a lottery that favored kids from the neighborhood and low academic performers, will be very, very high.

See the full story here.