In the high-stakes contest for teacher support in November, Democrat Stacey Abrams has essentially told Republican Brian Kemp, “I’ll see your bet and more than double it.” The Atlanta ...

In a breakthrough likely to shift a fierce national debate over how teachers should be paid, Mayor Bloomberg and the city teachers union are moving forward with a plan to base salaries on student ...

Almost all school leaders think that teachers are involved in making important school decisions—but just over half of teachers would agree. That’s according to a new survey from the RAND Corporation.

Halcyon Ramsey, a mother of three children in the McKinney school district, is active in her kids’ elementary and middle schools. She knows how to reach administrators and has many teachers’ cellphone ...

A five-year ban on teacher strikes in debt-ridden Round Lake School District 116 has been dropped from a proposal to create a state financial authority there, as have other provisions that would have ...

PHOENIX — As they packed up their protest signs and returned to the classroom to finish out the school year, thousands of teachers in North Carolina turned their attention to a different fight: the ...

Perhaps at no other time in the history of American education has there been more publicly available information about what teachers think about their profession, their students, and the conditions ...

For nearly three decades, California's largest teachers union has all but handpicked the candidate who went on to win the race for state superintendent of public instruction. It was pretty much a ...

DELAND — Worried about losing part of their paychecks, teachers have asked school Superintendent Bill Hall to help them escape a requirement that partially ties their salaries next year to student ...

At Palm Lake Elementary, two out of three teachers earned a bonus through Orange County Public Schools’ merit-pay plan. At Richmond Heights Elementary, the number was zero. Palm Lake is a ...

About an hour after striking charter school workers grabbed picket signs and surrounded the entrance to Wrightwood Elementary on Tuesday, a top Chicago Teachers Union official took a moment to marvel ...