Cost of living exceeds community college salaries

by E Wayne Ross on March 17, 2007

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Cost of living exceeds community college salaries

Dolores Mirabella has taught at Seattle Community Colleges for more than two decades.

She enjoys working with her students — many of them adults, some of them recent immigrants — and is heartened by those who overcome personal challenges and turn their lives around. But lately, it hasn’t been enough. Mirabella, who teaches remedial courses in English, reading and study skills, is now thinking of taking a second job, possibly at a sports club on the weekends.