Report: Iowa Doesn’t Offer Teachers a Much-Desired Benefit

Report: Iowa doesn’t offer teachers a much-desired benefit

Iowa is among more than two-thirds of the states that have no state program requiring paid parental leave for teachers. The report from the National Council on Teacher Quality found just two states offer required fully paid parental leave for teachers up to 12 weeks. Another 14 states have some other kind of required paid […]

Most states don’t offer teachers paid parental leave — and only 2 cover a key related cost

Just 15 states and D.C. guarantee paid parental leave for all teachers, a new study says, and only two provide 12 weeks at full pay while covering the cost of a substitute.