But again, even those huge accomplishments weren't enough when he started applying for teaching slots. (gse.harvard.edu)
It's an issue that will be expensive to address, but last year the district created more teaching slots to begin reducing the size of sixth grade core classes. (washingtonpost.com)
There has been a gradual increase over the past decade in the percentage of districts offering pay incentives for shortage areas (see Figure 4), but recent evidence (see work by Katharine Strunk with Jason Grissom, Tammy Kolbe, and Dara Zeehandelaar) shows that few districts are truly strategic in matching incentives to staffing needs, and as a consequence, school systems continue to struggle to fill teaching slots in math and science. (educationnext.org)