My daughter is a Freshman on a Music Education track, at a college just across the river in NJ. She’ll earn a license in NJ on completion, but would need to add in some additional coursework to get one here. That’s certainly a hurdle to anyone coming here from elsewhere.

As it stands, given how toxic politics in this state are around schools and teacher pay, I’ve been encouraging her to look in and move to NJ when she’s done. I’m sure they have their issues, but I’ve an overall sense educators are typically treated much better on the other side than here.

I’ll add that the current MAGA board was elected during an “off-year,” election, where usually only the zealots come out. Hopefully the residents suffering next door to my school district learned their lesson and come out to vote or mail it in next time.