Denver Public Schools needs to hire 150 teachers, and classes start in 5 days.
Bruce Randolph School, at 3955 Steele Street, is among three locations for Denver Public Schools job fairs on August 18.will get underway on Monday, August 22. But less than a week before the big day, hundreds of staff jobs remain unfilled — including approximately 150 teaching positions.
"When it comes to teachers, we are on par with where we are typically at this time of year," Pribble notes."Even pre-pandemic, we usually weren't at 100 percent. We would always have a few positions we would fill when we rolled into the beginning of the school year." , serving around 90,000 students —"that's less than one teacher per building. For the most part, schools have zero teacher openings, but some schools may have one or two."over recent years, and Pribble acknowledges that DPS wasn't immune."Things may have stabilized," he says."During the pandemic and immediately following, we did see some of that, where teachers were choosing other careers. But we haven't seen as much of that in the past six months or so.
If DPS isn't able to hire the full slate of bus drivers by Monday,"some of our transportation staff may jump into those roles" on an interim basis, Pribble says.
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