Terms of Use

Data Accuracy and Verification

PlainTeacher aggregates and reformats information that originates from public government agencies, regulatory filings, and other openly available sources. While we take reasonable steps to ingest, normalize, and refresh this data, upstream records may contain clerical errors, lag behind real-world changes, or omit relevant context. You are solely responsible for verifying any fact that influences a legal, medical, financial, educational, safety, or similarly consequential decision. Cross-reference the official source before acting on anything you read here.

Acceptable Use

You may browse, read, and share PlainTeacher content for personal, journalistic, academic, and non-commercial research use. You may cite specific records with attribution and a link back to the page on plainteacher.com. The published teacher-salary-by-state CSV is explicitly available for download and reuse under CC0. You may not (a) systematically scrape or crawl other parts of the site in bulk or bypass rate limits; (b) reproduce our site design or original editorial copy as your own; (c) use our pages to harass, defame, or misrepresent any individual or organization appearing in the data; (d) remove, obscure, or mislabel source attribution; or (e) attempt to bypass security controls or authentication mechanisms.

Plain-Language Editorial Role

PlainTeacher combines public data with plain-language summaries, explainers, and comparisons. Its pages identify their source data and calculation limits. Underlying records are loaded from the upstream source rather than altered on the site. If a summary misreads a source, use the correction route on the contact page.

Content Licensing and Reuse

The underlying public records surfaced on PlainTeacher are in the public domain or otherwise freely licensed by the issuing agency, you are free to use those raw facts. However, our site design, layout, navigation structure, original editorial copy, category taxonomies, comparison tables, and curated rankings are the copyrighted work of PlainTeacher. These creative elements may not be reproduced in whole or substantial part without permission.

Changes to These Terms

We may update these Terms of Use from time to time to reflect changes in our data sources, product features, legal environment, or advertising relationships. When we make material changes, we will update the "Last updated" date above and, when appropriate, surface a brief notice on the homepage. Continued use of the site after an update constitutes acceptance of the revised terms. We encourage you to revisit this page periodically.

Governing Law and Disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the United States and the jurisdiction in which PlainTeacher is domiciled, without regard to conflict-of-law principles. Any dispute arising from or relating to your use of PlainTeacher will first be addressed through good-faith informal negotiation. If that fails, both parties agree to resolve the dispute in the courts with jurisdiction over PlainTeacher's principal place of business. Nothing in these terms limits your statutory consumer-protection rights under applicable local law.

Legal Notices

For formal legal notices, DMCA takedown requests, subpoenas, law-enforcement requests, or correspondence regarding these terms, email legal@plainteacher.com. General questions, data corrections, and feedback should use the contact page.