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The biggest financial cuts for school budgets came in teacher salaries. School districts expected teachers to accept lowered salaries and increased workloads, and for the most part teachers did, rationalizing that any job was better than no job at all. From 1929-1930 to 1933-1934 teachers' salaries dropped 13.6 percent on average, from $1,420 to $1,227 annually. In Philadelphia the school board "volunteered" a 10 percent wage cut on the part of teachers; Denver teachers were forced to take a 20 percent cut in the same fashion. In New York substitute teachers were hired to replace regular teachers as a technique for cutting wages. The drop in pay was somewhat offset by declining prices for most goods, but teachers' salaries had already been lowest among the professions, and teachers lived in constant fear that they would lose their jobs and end up, like so many others, on the street. The fear...
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