From the “you get what you pay for” department, an AP story in the Louisville Courier-Journal indicates that college debt is pricing graduates out of teaching, social work, and other modestly paying public-service careers. So, the graduates get a decent education because they’re paying for it. Indiana does not get enough good teachers or quality social services because we are unwilling or unable to pay adequately for those services.
The report from the Indiana Public Interest Research Group says 28 percent of public university graduates and 46 percent of private college graduates in Indiana would face unmanageable debt payments on a starting teacher’s salary.