{"id":29596,"date":"2018-03-29T21:21:45","date_gmt":"2018-03-30T02:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=29596"},"modified":"2018-03-29T21:21:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T02:21:45","slug":"governor-signs-teacher-pay-raise-bill-some-educators-are-still-walking-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2018\/03\/29\/governor-signs-teacher-pay-raise-bill-some-educators-are-still-walking-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor Signs Teacher Pay Raise Bill, Some Educators Are Still Walking Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_29597\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 620px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-29597\" alt=\"Flanked by teachers from the Professional Oklahoma Educators organization, Governor Mary Fallin signs a new teacher pay raise into law. March 29, 2018. . \" src=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2018\/03\/IMG_1929-620x413.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Emily Wendler \/ StateImpact Oklahoma<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Mary Fallin signs a teacher pay raise into law on Thursday, March 29, 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>Governor Mary Fallin signed a teacher pay raise into law on Thursday, giving educators their first state-funded salary boost in 10 years. On average, they\u2019ll get about $6,000, but many of them are still walking out of their classrooms on Monday.<\/p><p><!--more--><\/p><p>Mark Webb, a science teacher at Mustang High School, is one of them. He says he appreciates the pay raise but he still wants more money for the classroom.<\/p><p>&#8220;We have not funded education properly since 2007,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And that message has been lost today.&#8221;<\/p><p>Webb says he will be rallying at the Capitol on Monday, and likely Tuesday, too.<\/p><p>&#8220;If I\u2019m the only one here, then I will go to my Representative and Senator and say, &#8216;look, we haven\u2019t fixed the problem. This isn\u2019t where we need to be.\u2019&#8221;<\/p><p>Administrators for the Oklahoma City Public School district announced schools will be closed Monday and they\u2019re encouraging teachers to spend their day at the Capitol.<\/p><p>Other districts, however, are backing off of the walkout idea. Superintendent of Edmond Public Schools, Bret Towne, wrote his teachers an email asking them to come to school Monday.<\/p><p>He said the pay raise Gov. Fallin signed into law is a &#8220;significant gain&#8221; and walking out could put the district at risk of losing community support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Mary Fallin signed a teacher pay raise into law on Thursday, giving educators their first state-funded salary boost in 10 years. On average, they\u2019ll get about $6,000, but many of them are still walking out of their classrooms on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":29597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[758,781,779],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29596"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29603,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29596\/revisions\/29603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}