21.   Teachers have been paid for decades on a salary scale that increases with each year they are in the classroom.

22.   The current local leader, Mikhail Stepanenko, was angry with her letter to the newspaper criticizing him for not paying teachers.

23.   The district uses a performance-based pay scale that, once fully implemented, will pay teachers according to their evaluations from principals and colleagues.

24.   The reality is that we are not paying our teachers.

25.   Perhaps the most radical part of the idea is simply to pay teachers for teaching, a rarity at most medical schools.

26.   A western Ukrainian school district is no longer paying its teachers in karbovantsy, the local currency, but in bottles of vodka.

27.   Al Fondy, president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Teachers, said the solution is to find a way to pay teachers more across the board.

28.   Although the teachers were paid Monday, they planned to march to Government House Thursday to protest what they say is a shortage of supplies.

29.   And he said teachers should be paid more.

30.   Books for the classes will be distributed free to students and the religion teachers will be paid by the Ministry of Education, Jallouf said.