Lack of affordable housing exacerbates the teacher staffing challenges that many school districts face.
Do teachers who return to the district they graduated from have a competitive edge over other beginning teachers?
Despite raises in teacher salaries across the country, skyrocketing rental and mortgage costs are outpacing teacher salary increases. This isn’t just bad for teachers. It’s bad for everybody.
Permit me to draw my inspiration from scripture, referencing the basic human needs of clothes on our backs, food to eat, and a shelter over our heads. How better to discern if in fact teacher salaries are where they need to be? Applying salary data from our Teacher Contract Database, we asked this question: are teachers paid enough to put a roof over their heads?
Teacher salaries are always in the news, but in the last few months we’ve noticed that housing affordability for teachers is in the spotlight, with many school districts exploring ways to support teachers’ ability to rent or purchase homes.
A new NCTQ analysis finds that despite salary increases since 2019, teachers are falling further behind in the race for housing affordability.
A four-day work week may seem like a good way to attract teachers and address tightening school budgets, but researchers say it might do more harm than good.
Research shows that teachers of color positively impact all students, especially students of color, improving their academic achievement, discipline, attendance, graduation rates, and social-emotional outcomes. Despite their positive impact on students, the teaching workforce remains 80% white while students of color now comprise over 50% of public school students.
Explore the most popular District Trendline posts of 2023, spotlighting topics like paid parental leave benefits, housing costs in relation to teaching salaries, the diversification of the teacher workforce, and more.
As a group, teachers tend to defy the old adage “you can’t go home again,” usually taking jobs within 50 miles of where they went to high school and making that choice at a much higher rate than other professionals.
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When the COVID-19 crisis hit, we asked what, if anything, districts had spelled out in their existing policies relevant to teacher work, pay, and leave in situations of emergency school closures. Then we started collecting the new policies districts are adopting for teachers.
We’re excited to bring back the Trendline series with one of our most popular topics: teacher salaries.