This district is located adjacent to the Minnesota/Iowa border. The Republican Dictatorship that rules Wisconsin continues to defund public schools while Minnesota just sent a 2 BILLION dollar funding increase to keep it's public schools #1 in America. Wisconsin is declining while Minnesota is the economic engine of the Midwest.
We strongly urge prospective teaching candidates to leave school districts like this for the much higher pay and benefits offered in Minnesota districts. Stay out of Iowa as that state screws teachers even worse than the MAGA Republican Dictatorship that rules Wisconsin.
Average teacher salaries for in Grant County range from $48,179 to $62,095. Politically, this is Trump Country with about 56% of the voters supporting Trump and Standing With Walker before Trump.
The average teacher salary for the Platteville school district is the midrange in the Grant County salary range, coming in at $58,298. Since July 2011, the average teacher salary in this school district has only increased by 0.3% which is far less than the rate of inflation, and the LOWEST average teacher salary increase in Grant County. We cannot understand how Platteville schools are able to attract or retain teachers in the shadow of Minnesota and immediate $10-20,000 higher starting salaries and 5 fold career earnings increase potential.
.For these reasons, we rate the career salary potential for this district as a Dead End job.
April 2024 Referendum Results
Taxpayers REJECTED a $10,500,000 non- recurring operational referendum. Organized opposition to this referendum focused on cutting teacher positions and teacher salaries by at least 20%.
Teachers in this district will likely face some combination of layoffs, significant workload increases, benefit cuts, a salary freeze for newer teachers with pay cuts for experienced teachers in order for this district to continue operations.