Latest news from Hazel Green, AL collected exclusively by city-data.com from local newspapers, TV, and radio stations. Ancestries: American (35.4%), English (6.1%), African (3.9%), Scotch-Irish (3.6%), Irish (2.2%), Scottish (1.9%). Current Local Time: CST time zone. Elevation: 790 feet. Land area: 10.0 square miles.
For both kindergarten and elementary school teachers, Alaska, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island and California are the five highest-paying states in the nation. Rhode Island reported the highest average salary for kindergarten teachers, $71,820, compared to the national average of $52,350.
WASHINGTON (AP)  Teachers earned an average of $46,752 last year, a slight raise that did not keep pace with inflation, a teachers' union says. The average salary increased 2.1% in 2003-04, according to state figures compiled by the National Education Association, the country's largest teachers union.he top state, Connecticut, paid public school teachers an average yearly salary of $57,337. The District of Columbia was next at $57,009. South Dakota paid the lowest average salary, $33,236, while Oklahoma was next-to-last at $35,061. The NEA got its figures by surveying state education agencies.