Some teachers are planning to call out of school Wednesday to demonstrate at intersections in Wake County and beyond.

Complaints about teacher pay are a common refrain in education. Now, new data help to measure the gap between teachers’ hopes and reality. If teachers had their way, they’d get a 25% raise, finds a ...

The average teacher salary has increased since last year, but when considering inflation, teachers are taking home less than they did a decade ago, according to the nation’s largest teachers’ union.

The teacher pay penalty is the gap between the weekly wages of teachers and the wages of other college graduates. According to a new report from senior economist Sylvia Allegretto at the Center for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kyle Smitley writes about the intersection of schools and money. Katie Pausen (Detroit) unlocks a higher level of learning about ...

North Carolina ranks 43rd in average teacher salaries and 39th in starting teacher pay, according to the National Education Association. Mississippi ranks lower in both categories. A nonprofit found ...

This frustrated teacher seems to have a point. While some states have given teachers a generous bump in their pay, the ...

Louisiana’s two largest teacher unions have come out in support of a sweeping constitutional amendment Gov. Jeff Landry has backed that would rewrite large swaths of the state’s public tax and budget ...

National Teacher Appreciation Week runs from May 5-9. Recent reports showed mixed results when it comes to teacher pay, morale and more in Tennessee. As Teacher Appreciation Week gets underway ...

California teachers earned the highest average salary in the U.S. during the 2023-24 school year, reaching $101,084. The national average teacher salary increased by 3.8% to $72,030, but still lags ...