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Looking for a teaching position?  

Whether you are interested in teaching in Wisconsin or in Minnesota, our website has you covered. Use the SEARCH button in the top right corner to search for all 420 Wisconsin public school districts.(the SEARCH function is kind of weak; if you don't find the district this way and know the county the district is located in, look up all the districts in that county)  Find out the "Inside Story" of how each of these districts treats their teachers.

Thanks to the Republican Cabal that has spent the past 15 years slashing state aid to public schools, Wisconsin ranks:

• 44th in America in Funding for Public Schools (lowest in the Midwest)
• 43rd in America for Starting Teacher Salaries  (lowest in the Midwest)
• 35th in America for Average Teacher Salary (lowest in the Midwest)  

Willing to move to Minnesota?  There's a LOT of great reasons to do so.

Teaching in Minnesota versus Wisconsin will triple your career earnings in urban or suburban districts, and more than quadruple career earnings teaching in rural districts. Once a great place to live and teach, thanks to 15 years of Republican defunding of public schools, Wisconsin is one of the worst states in America to build a teaching career. 

Though Wisconsin has scores of teaching jobs available and school districts clamoring to hire fresh graduates like you,  we strongly encourage you to make the right decision for your future by first searching for jobs in Minnesota, and only "settle" for a Wisconsin job if the Minnesota search doesn't work out. 

Especially for teachers (UW Platteville) who want to teach in a small rural community, Minnesota rural teaching careers are light years ahead of the poverty level dead end jobs offered by 99% of rural Wisconsin districts. 

 In 98% of Wisconsin school districts, Superintendents and other administrators are the top priority for scarce salary dollars. Teachers get a few scraps that are left after all other spending priorities are filled. In Minnesota, teachers and administrators are treated equally when raises are disbursed.  

Especially in rural Wisconsin, many school districts have no published salary system. Teacher raises are parsed out by administrators based on no identified criteria. This leads to wildly different salaries for teachers with the same qualifications and experience. All salaries are public so everyone knows what everyone else is earning. 

 In order to attract new hires, many Wisconsin rural districts offer starting salaries that are $4,000-$9,000 higher that salaries earned by teachers who have worked there for up to 10 years. Graduates who unknowingly accept jobs in these districts face a torrent of hostility from experienced co-workers that earn far less than the new hires. New hires frequently earn $5,000 or more salary than their "Mentor" teacher! Every year you stay, your salary falls behind the salaries paid to lure "new hires" into signing a contract. Most of these districts have 60-80% turnover over 5 years.

Many graduates who accept teaching jobs in the worst Wisconsin districts find their first year of teaching to be hellacious. In many high turnover rural districts, special education teachers have it even worse as they may be the only licensed SPED teacher in the school. Wisconsin is #1 in America for the number of non-certified, even non-degreed emergency licensed teachers. Many first year SPED teachers find that they are responsible for an entire school's IEP caseload; that's 50-75 or more IEP's to write on EVENINGS & WEEKENDS!  All for $43,000 yearly salary that will take 15 years to get to $50,000.