So...get two years' of teaching experience at MPS while not living in Milwaukee and then move on.

"The board also approved relaxing the district's residency requirements to allow teachers committing to hard-to-fill positions for two years to move into the district."

http://www.jsonline.com/news/education/m...

That's true for all city employees.

It must be said that if you teach in MPS you are required to live in the City of Milwaukee.

Macdaddy, these aren't new jobs created - they're replacing retirees.

41K is a high starting salary for teachers. In MPS, it's necessary to get people to go into some of those schools.

I taught for 20 years and didn't top 40K until year 20 in a small rural district (I'm not complaining about my pay - just giving a frame of reference).

westorbust, excellent points and I agree with you, however when you get out of college you generally get the grunt jobs and work up to the 'dream job' why would teaching be any different?

Thank you Governor Walker for keeping Wisconsin open for business.

More jobs created. It's working!

$41k is still startling low for the amount of actual work it takes to teach children in public school systems, especially in large cities. HIstorically, those positions are hard to fill because a majority of teachers don't actually want to teach in large city, inner city and metropolitan areas. They want suburbia, small towns and rural areas. Not all, but a majority.

4 years of college doesn't get you much of a salary anymore, unless you're in engineering or computers science. The requirements by employers to have a 4 year degree has gone drastically up, but salaries are flat or on the downward slide, and have been for the last 15 years, as are almost all wages.

vnvet7071, 41k with benefits is much better than most college graduates, your friends son was smart enough to go into a good industry that is in high demand, I am guessing he wasn't pushed into it at gunpoint, neither are teachers, spare me the envy.

Wow, 41,000 a year to teach our youth. A friends son started out on a four year degree, making over 100,000 a year, working on computers. His parents taught for over thirty years each, their combined income at retirement didn't match his starting salary.Good luck Milwaukee.

This thread is curiously empty, I am stunned I would think people would be very positive about this article. I guess it doesn't fit many political agendas. Oh well, I think it is a good thing.

Hopefully, the screening process at MPS is better than the Madison School Board was in their search for a School Superintendent.