10% of teaching positions were unfilled in the majority of school districts at the start of this year.
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A slow leak of teachers from the nation's public schools was starting to reach crisis proportions before the pandemic, and COVID-19 made things worse.by the Economic Policy Institute called the teacher shortage "real, large and growing, and worse than we thought." It found that high-poverty schools suffer the most from the shortage of credentialed teachers.
When the pandemic struck in 2020, teachers' jobs got harder — and more danger0us — as students' needs grew and parents and communities started demanding more from them. "Burnout and the desire for better pay" are the top reasons teachers leave, Noelle Ellerson Ng of the AASA tells Axios.found that the pandemic did "magnify the teacher shortage, amplify the inequities of vacancies, and force the nation to really look at what we expect of educators in the context of the important work they do."
The superintendents' group called the problem "complex," with "multiple factors driving educators away from the field, including relatively low pay, poor working environments, uneven or absent opportunities for professional growth, and the weak prestige of teaching."Of the more than 900 superintendents surveyed from August 8-24, the vast majority — 78% — said the vacancy rate on their teaching staff was 0-5%.4.7% said the rate was 11%-15%, and 1.4% said it was 16%-20%.
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