Teacher recruitment and retention continues to represent a significant challenge, with the proportion of state funded school teachers leaving the profession rising again in 2015. (schoolsweek.co.uk)
Although scholars do not agree on what constitutes an appropriate minimum funding level, studies that attempt to determine such sums find that many states fund schools below those levels. (educationnext.org)
With a third of state funded schools being religious, it is often much harder for staff of minority religions or of no religion to find employment. (humanism.org.uk)