SF Chronicle reports that “executive secretaries, gardeners, tree pruners, cable splicers, locksmiths, painters and parking meter repairmen — to name just a few — earn higher starting salaries than teachers in San Francisco and climb the salary ladder more quickly. Window cleaners, for example, start at $64,428 and hit $78,312 in four years.
“I think that’s a travesty,” said John Affeldt, managing attorney for Public Advocates, a law firm in San Francisco that is suing the state over poor education funding.”
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