Teacher Salaries

Teachers in D.C. are among the highest paid in the nation with Maryland teachers also faring well as Virginia teachers fall behind, according to a report ranking salaries across the nation recently released by the National Education…

Liz Koenig has been working in D.C. charter schools for seven years, and at the same charter for the last five. She used to be a lawyer. “My first-year salary as a teaching assistant was less than my year-end bonus as an attorney, which…

Imagine if each year a company lost about a quarter of its staff, and after five years over half the employees were new. That’s what’s happening with teachers in public schools in D.C., according to a new report commissioned by D.C.’s State…