Teacher Pay

Idaho lawmakers have signed off on another of Gov. Brad Little’s major promises made in his state of the state speech last month to boost health insurance benefits for public school employees.

This segment originally aired May 21, 2019. Idaho's average teacher pay has declined by 6.4% since 2009, adjusted for inflation. Some advocates says this…

Public school teachers are seeing historically low wages compared to workers with similar education and skills. Noah Glick found our region varies...

Idaho teacher salaries increased by an average of 3.6 percent in 2017-18, the third year of the state’s five-year, $250 million plan to boost teacher…

Teachers around the state are ready with lesson plans as a new school year gets under way. But in one tiny school district in rural Idaho, salary…

Idaho’s average teacher salary has increased by slightly more than 5 percent since 2015, when the state adopted a five-year plan to boost pay.Like many…

Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter says that he has no plans to introduce a tax cut proposal to the Idaho Legislature in 2017.Speaking Wednesday at the Associated…

As students head back to classrooms across the state this week and next, Governor Butch Otter continues to push his five-year education plan. In a guest…

The Nampa school district will offer full-day, every-day kindergarten classes at some elementary schools in the fall.The Idaho Press-Tribune reports that…

When it comes to paying and keeping teachers, there are wide gaps between Idaho’s haves and have-nots.Idaho’s new five-year plan to boost teacher pay will…