There are plenty of opportunities for those considering Tucson teaching jobs.

Tucson's education and health services industry employed 60,100 workers during December 2009, according to the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics. This is up from 59,800 workers during November and a 2.4 percent increase from December 2008.

Educators in the area can expect to be paid relatively well. According to Salary.com, the average pay for a public school teacher in Tucson is between $40,811 per year and $54,209 per year.

The majority of the city's public primary and secondary schools are run by the Tucson Unified School District, which is the second-largest school district in Arizona, behind only Mesa Public Schools.

As of 2006, TUSD had an enrollment of more than 60,000 students and employed about 3,700 faculty members, according to Wikipedia. The district was previously ordered by the federal government to enforce desegregation to help balance race and ethnicity throughout TUSD schools.

The district has nine traditional high schools and several alternative high schools. The oldest and largest high school is Tucson High Magnet School, which enrolled 2,945 students during the 2006-2007 school year. TUSD also owns the KWXL-LP radio station.

TUSD also has many publicly-funded charter schools, including Sonoran Science Academy, BASIS Tucson and Satori Charter School.

Private schools in the city include: Tucson Hebrew Academy, Fenster School, Salpointe Catholic High School and St. Gregory College Preparatory School.

Institutions of higher-education located in the Tucson area include:

• University of Arizona - the second-largest university in Arizona with more than 36,000 students
• Pima Community College - has six campuses
• University of Phoenix - has four campuses
• The Art Institute of Tucson
• Prescott College
• Northern Arizona University
• Arizona School of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine

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