Betcha WV has got NYC beat on total count.

700 NYC teachers paid to do nothing
Accused of misconduct, taxpayers foot bill at cost of $65 million a year

NEW YORK - Hundreds of New York City public school teachers accused of offenses ranging from insubordination to sexual misconduct are being paid their full salaries to sit around all day playing Scrabble, surfing the Internet or just staring at the wall, if that's what they want to do.

Because their union contract makes it extremely difficult to fire them, the teachers have been banished by the school system to its "rubber rooms" — off-campus office space where they wait months, even years, for their disciplinary hearings.

The 700 or so teachers can practice yoga, work on their novels, paint portraits of their colleagues — pretty much anything but school work. They have summer vacation just like their classroom colleagues and enjoy weekends and holidays through the school year.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31494936/ns/us_news-education/

In WV it is not a Union Contract that is the problem, ….. in West Virginia it is Teacher Tenure and 5 to 7 levels of Grievance Processes that make it damn near impossible to get rid of bad teachers and/or any school personnel. Thus, anywhere said are, they are in their own little "condom room".

So one must ask, …… how much is the real long term co$t to the State of/for a poorly trained/badly educated student?

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