Pros
Health insurance Salary if you started the year in a NES school, but that will decrease substantially in the 2026-2027 academic year.
Cons
PUA schools salary for teacher is way less than NES school. You get evaluated constantly (weekly or in some cases daily) and scores can vary substantially as appraiser may not be calibrated. MRS coaching is supposed to be in the moment, but you may have a Tier 2 that is not even certified who'll ask you to stay after school and not coach you in the moment. Experience and novice teachers have been leaving throughout the year and school may not hire a teacher for them. You may start with an amount of students and schedule, but that changes when a teacher leaves and school administration spread classes from the teacher who left. Multiple lesson plans to prepare, and the district may not give you the lessons, so you have to create them in your planning time. They also want you do prepare power points for all your classes, handouts, quizzes daily in all your classes. School runs out of paper and toner. You cannot display students' work in the wall. You may have even receive a bonus last year, but the score are so low that they may put you for non-hiring and you'll never be able to come back to the district. Evaluations change constantly; at the beginning the top score was 15 and they changed that to 18... so your score would definitely put you in a category that will pay you less. District is out of money but pay management a hefty amount. Teacher salary is pending on proper administration. District is struggling with money, students are leaving the district.