teacher shortage
Legislation
Kentucky lawmakers try to solve teacher shortage

(The Center Square) – Kentucky school districts looking to fill teacher shortages in the classroom may be able to look just across the state line for a solution, state lawmakers learned. Read More

September 22, 2022
Culture, Public Education
Maryland teacher shortage worsened ‘because during the pandemic people left’

(The Center Square) – The Maryland Board of Education and teachers’ organizations expected the current teacher shortage as much as 10 years ago, the head of the Maryland State Education… Read More

August 12, 2022
Public Education
As Illinois adds teachers and sheds students, is there really a teacher shortage?

(The Center Square) – Illinois schools employed more teachers in 2021 than it had at any point over the past decade while student enrollment declined over the same period. Despite… Read More

August 10, 2022
Public Education
The ‘Book of Exodus’: Teachers leaving public schools in droves

Teachers are abandoning their profession in Nebraska at an unprecedented rate. Nearly 600 have already resigned from Omaha Public Schools (OPS), the state’s largest district, as of July… Read More

August 8, 2022
Public Education
Washington has more teachers, in spite of a reported critical educator shortage

(The Center Square) – A Central Washington University report in 2016 declared that there was a teacher shortage in the state of Washington. Since then there… Read More

June 29, 2022
Public Education
Fewer people in New Jersey choose to become teachers

(The Center Square) – The pandemic made New Jersey’s teacher shortage worse, but the problem has been emerging for some time, a spokesperson for the New Jersey Education Association… Read More

June 22, 2022
Public Education
Policy analysts: Claims of impending Michigan teacher shortage overstated

(The Center Square) – Amid calls from Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to remedy a perceived teacher shortage in Michigan, some of the leading policy analysts in the state claim the governor’s… Read More

May 17, 2022