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Money is not the reason that people enter teaching.

I don't think the schools are getting as much money as they should.

Teaching is a truly noble profession. It's sad the amount of responsibility that teachers have today. They're not only teaching kids: they're raising kids, policing kids - and they don't make a lot of money.

Teachers need to be paid like professionals.

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

With Michigan's economic future on the line, we can't afford to have our 500 local school districts marching in different directions. Instead, we need a high standards, mandatory curriculum to get all our students on the road to higher education and a good paying job.

To get enough of the teachers we need, teaching has to be a great job where talented people are supported and rewarded.

I think good teachers are underpaid.

I taught in a small teacher's college for three or four years, at which point all the administrators got a pay raise and the teaching faculty didn't.

Money buys the most experienced teachers, less-crowded classrooms, high-quality teaching materials, and after-school programs.