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California bill would boost teacher salaries by 50% over 7 years

William Lopez Rodas, left, sitting next to classmate Daniel Safa, both 10th graders at Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, receives a congratulatory fist bump from his teacher, Lindsay Humphrey, for referring to his notes during a computer science class offered by Stanford University on Nov. 17, 2022.

A California lawmaker this week introduced a bill that would raise salaries for teachers and other school staff by 50% by 2030, the latest legislative effort to tackle a worsening shortage of educators across the state.

The proposed measure, AB 938, would create funding targets under the Local Control Funding Formula and

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