ANN ARBOR, MI – When Chelsea Mayer started working with Ann Arbor Public Schools, she said her overall compensation was more per day as a substitute than it is now as a full-time teacher.
That was a year and a half ago, she said, in a time the district was “so desperate” for subs. Since then, she’s taken on a kindergarten classroom, stabilizing a space that was once “chaotic” with a turnover in educators at Mitchell Elementary.
Like many of her colleagues, Mayer loves her job. But as AAPS teachers enter their sixth month without a new contract, she and others maintain it’s getting harder to stay…