The sick leave pool for teachers has thousands of unused days for employees to use. Gregg Palmer, the district’s superintendent, said some of his donated leave from when he was a teacher in the ...

Just in the last few months, two stories of sick-day donations went viral: In Florida, teachers rallied around a colleague with Stage III colon cancer who ran out of sick days, and in Alabama, a ...

A fifth-grade teacher has gone viral on TikTok after explaining why teachers hardly ever call out of work for sickness, following the nightmare she faced when she tried to take just one day off ...

As Louisiana struggles with an ongoing teacher shortage, advocates say better parental leave for educators is needed to ...

David Green is a history teacher and a father to a 16-month-old girl who was diagnosed with cancer. The Mae Jemison High School teacher didn’t have any more sick days that he could take to stay ...

Such action is historically unusual in Arizona. Tucson teachers in the late 1990s and early 2000s staged several sick-outs over teacher pay. The last full-fledged teacher strikes in Arizona were ...

Adams City High School is canceling in-person classes Wednesday in response to a planned “sick-out” by teachers, school district officials said Tuesday night. Adams City Principal Chris Garcia ...

Out of the 863 teachers Budd studied, 322 of them used four or more, but less than eight, of their sick days. Out of the 863 teachers, 188 of them used fewer than two of their sick days. Advertisement ...

The brazen Ohio teacher who reportedly called out sick to go to a Nashville concert is fighting back against the school that fired her. Eileen Washburn, a former English teacher at Lakota West ...

And the West Windsor teacher couldn’t legally tap her vast bank of personal sick days unless she herself was sick or injured. As her mother’s health deteriorated, Rizziello was out of time off.

An Ohio High School teacher could be fired for calling out sick for two days, only to be caught enjoying herself at a concert in Nashville and not stuck at home under the weather.

But teachers union officials praised the plan as a common sense solution to better support educators and their families. Many other public and private employees can already use sick days to attend ...