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 ...

Ten years after California legislators passed a bill creating a database to get a better handle on its teaching force, the Golden state remains one of only a handful of states not to have such a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The Pennsylvania Department of Education has given the public greater access to the details of school district spending, including public school employee salaries. The state has added school district ...