How we verify
TeacherRaise shows what a district's own documents say about teacher pay: the salary schedule, and the rules for moving across it. Nothing is shown as verified until it passes all three of these.
1. We keep the district's document
The contract, salary schedule or HR page is saved as it was on the day we read it. Every figure and rule on a page links to the document it came from and names the page.
2. Every value is found on its page
Each dollar amount and each quoted rule is checked against the text of the page it cites. An amount or a quote that isn't on the page is not shown.
3. Automatic checks hold anything doubtful
A table whose pay falls as experience rises, a document that belongs to another district or another staff group, a page we couldn't read cleanly: each is held back, not published, and tried again the next week.
A second reading
We are moving every district to two independent readings that must agree before a rule is published. Rules added from 13 November 2026 are published that way. Rules published earlier were read once and checked against the page as above; they are being re-read.
What the labels mean
Verified. The pay table and the rules have both passed.
Schedule only. The pay table has been checked against the district's document. The rules have not been verified yet.
State profile. We have no checked figures for the district yet, so the page shows none.
Not stated: ask HR. We read the district's documents and they don't say. We don't guess.
What this is not
The reading is done by software; a person has not checked every page. Your district's HR office decides your placement. Confirm with HR before you pay for a course, and tell us if a page is wrong.