Our school curriculum requires teaching students from 2nd grade on up how to use databases, but we're a bit uncertain what is a good program to use to teach them. Obviously Access is out of the ...

A new Web site gives users instant access to teacher-contract data in the nation’s 50 largest school districts, but teachers’ unions are warning against taking some of the information at face value.

California can hardly afford to give up $6 million. Yet that’s what the federal government is rightly demanding. The U.S. Department of Education wants its money back because the state failed to use ...

It looks simple: A big button sits at the top of the California Commission for Teacher Credentialing website that says “Search for an Educator.”After a few more steps, the user can look up information ...

The background checks that schools conduct to ensure that prospective teachers aren't sexual predators are pretty stringent. Schools research criminal records. Teachers are fingerprinted. References ...

New data from the Michigan Department of Education shows 97.5 percent of teachers in the state were rated effective or highly effective by their district. The remainder were rated either minimally ...

In December 2010, the Orange County Register released a report providing details on actual earnings of more than 35,000 employees of county public schools. The data revealed that administrators, ...

Garden Grove elementary teacher Christopher Micah Brazelton, 40, was sentenced to eight years in prison for rubbing a girl’s thighs and crotch area as he sat next to her in his classroom, and for ...