From the Asheville Citizen-Times:
First-grade teacher Christy McClure will start work at a new school next year.
She plans to drive an extra 10 miles — 20 miles round trip — and she estimates she will earn an additional $12,000 a year.
McClure will cross the North Carolina border into Georgia, where she says her advanced degrees and 15 years of experience teaching will earn her a big boost in pay.
As North Carolina lawmakers debate raises for the state’s teachers, some are taking matters into their own hands.
But they say it’s not just about the money.
McClure, who has been teaching first grade at Hayesville Elementary in Clay County, says as a teacher in North Carolina, the last couple of years have felt almost “toxic.”
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