Missouri teachers say pay is lacking
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Joel Chaky teaches social studies to middle and high school students Monday through Friday. On weekends, and some nights, he cooks at a restaurant.
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Missouri has had a month to get over its disappointment after being left out of a BCS bowl.
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Head teachers are more vulnerable and some lose jobs because their faces don't fit, school leaders say.
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Two-thirds of local authorities in Wales are not spending enough on education, according to a teachers' union.
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The Hamas-led Palestinian government does not have enough money to pay tens of thousands of employees, the finance minister said Wednesday, raising fears of more unrest in the chaotic West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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Like Mike Christopherson (Readers' Forum, Dec. 1), I wondered why the state of Utah was accumulating such a big sum of money when the roads around the state badly need fixing and schoolteachers are underpaid. I read his letter to my husband. He said, "I know the reason. They're just like me.
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Business & money: Consumers and small firms are being left short of cash before being reimbursed, reports Lisa Bachelor.
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Administrators say public universities are charging fees because legislatures shy away from tuition increases.
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State courts in Missouri and New York split on whether worker lawsuits claiming unpaid wages should be granted class-action status.
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A year-long task force study found widespread deficiencies in how the District spends $3.75 billion a year, failures resulting from both negligence and intentional behavior, according to a final report released yesterday.
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School systems increasingly say they cannot afford to pay to privately educate disabled children whose parents unilaterally reject their proposed placements.
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In the nationâs classrooms, middle class teachers increasingly encounter poor students, often with disastrous results. Ruby Payne says she has the secrets to help them cross the great divide.
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Federal executives find that a new pay-for-performance system has had little effect on their performance, but it has caused morale problems, according to a survey released yesterday.
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The school district that runs the nation's largest merit pay program gave oversized bonuses to nearly 100 teachers and is asking them to give it back. The president of Houston's largest teachers' union is telling members not to return the overpayments, which range from $62.50 to $2,790.
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Teachers are going to have to make some changes.
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Rep. Danny K. Davis (D-Ill.), chairman of the House federal workforce subcommittee, is increasingly skeptical of pay-for-performance systems in the federal government. He's also a little frustrated.
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Gone are the days when teachers' salaries rose automatically with years of experience, or academic credits. In this idyllic Mississippi River town, teachers get an annual raise only if they set and fulfill performance goals.