A new Web site gives users instant access to teacher-contract data in the nation’s 50 largest school districts, but teachers’ unions are warning against taking some of the information at face value.

I’ve been tasked with the classic, “Here’s some Word docs and Excel sheets, can this be a database?” sort of situation. I’ve dabbled in SQL enough to come up with an initial design, but I don’t know ...

MONTREAL – The city of Montreal contracts $1.5 billion in goods and services a year, so the public should be able to track where all that money goes. That’s what we here at The Gazette believe, so we ...