<p>If attracting & retaining good teachers in challenging communities is such a problem, then why not do what another public sector organization does? The U.S. State Dept offers its foreign officers incentive premiums for hardship locations. E.g., taking on a diplomatic posting in Cairo will pay better than taking on a diplomatic posting in Vienna. I have friends who voluntarily bid for postings in places like Eithiopia & Pakistan. They even take their school age kids with them. My friends who went to Pakistan got their car ambushed by gunfire, but then again that could happen in an U.S. inner city neighborhood, too…</p>
<p>Foreign services officers are also unionized-- I’ll bet most of you didn’t know that…</p>