Six-figure salaries are just one way to recruit and retain educators. The APS superintendent has five more ways.

Education Week’s State of Teaching survey, part of our annual project, reveals that most teachers believe they are viewed negatively by the American public. Feeling undervalued has the potential ...

Six decades later, D.C. city schools are actually statistical outliers. In a city where more than nine in 10 public school students are non-white, it has by far the lowest percentage of white ...

Randi Weingarten, the President of the American Federation of Teachers, wants to offer an alternative future for American public education. In her view, it's one that should prepare some students ...

The median salary for a public K-12 school teacher was about $62,000 in 2024, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten said with ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The Grand Rapids Public Schools have renamed a school in honor of the district's first African-American teacher. The Academy of Teaching, Learning, & Social Justice at ...

In New York and other cities across the nation, educators are grappling with fear among students and parents that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents will show up at schools – or their ...

“About 5,000 new teachers will be needed for the next 10 years, while on the basis of available enrollment statistics, all existing teachers training institutions combined will be able to ...

If immigration agents arrive on the doorstep of a New York City public school, principals have been told what to do. Ask the officers to wait outside, and call a school district lawyer.

Still, in his time as a public school teacher, he's seen relatively few other Asian American teachers. "I do find that they are able to identify with me more easily," he said.

In Florida, anti-public education lawmakers have turned their backs on educators. Florida’s teachers are ranked No. 50 in the nation in average salary.

This Black History Month, district leaders are renaming a Grand Rapids Public School in honor of a historic figure. ... who was the district's first African American teacher in 1899. ...