Average teacher salary rose 31 percent in 1990s

Monday, April 8, 2002

WASHINGTON -- Salaries for the nation's teachers just barely kept pace with living costs in the 1990s, rising 31 percent to about $43,000, the nation's largest teachers union said Monday.

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