Sentences with phrase «faced teacher shortages»

Schools faced teacher shortages as students returned to the classroom last month.

Alternative teacher certifications are becoming a nationwide trend as a stopgap for districts facing teacher shortages in their schools.

«If you're looking for a teaching job that's not smack in the middle of a city or 250 miles from the nearest highway, you may find it hard to believe that America faces a teacher shortage» says a Christian Science Monitor (March 17) report.

That was exactly the point Feistritzer made in The Truth Behind The «Teacher Shortage,» an editorial published in The Wall Street Journal (January 28, 1998) in which she questioned conventional wisdom that the United States would face a teacher shortage in the next decade, needing to find 2 million new teachers simply to keep up with demand.

NYC Program Fast - Tracks Teachers to Needy Schools Facing teacher shortages, especially dire shortages in its neediest schools, the NYC Board of Education is offering mid-career professionals and recent college graduates a six - week summer teacher - training program.

But New York, like many other locales around the country, faces a teacher shortage.

Districts facing teacher shortages have also cut preschool and kindergarten programs and shortened the school week or school year.

The Legislature recognizes that Florida continues to face teacher shortages and that fewer young people consider teaching as a career.

Those in support argue that the two - year requirement is a strong incentive for incoming educators to remain in the classroom at a time when the state is facing a teacher shortage.

Parts of the country may soon face a teacher shortage.

The Milwaukee metropolitan area could face a teacher shortage as the number of teachers leaving the local workforce continues to outpace the number of those entering.

While many Los Angeles residents know we are facing a teacher shortage, there is a second shortage threatening our schools that is less familiar: a diversity shortage.

«States facing teacher shortages may be hesitant to raise standards for teachers, fearing even more vacancies.

There are a LOT more public school teachers per child today, so how can districts and states still claim to be facing teacher shortages?»

However, many states are facing a teacher shortage that threatens their ability to deliver a quality education to all children.

In an increasingly competitive hiring landscape, particularly in high - need systems and regions facing teacher shortages, timing truly is everything.

President Trump's proposed elimination of this critical program would not only translate into job loss for teachers, it could also increase class sizes, especially in the regions of the country that already face teacher shortages.

Indeed, almost all states face teacher shortages in special education.

The state is currently facing a teacher shortage (not enough qualified candidates are applying for the positions available in bilingual education).

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Brian Lightman, leader of the ASCL head teachers» union, said schools faced «serious shortages» in maths and science teachers and called for a more co-ordinated approach to teacher recruitment.

Schools and parents are facing a chronic teacher shortage, a lack of school places, chaos around curriculum changes and primary tests, and a funding crisis.

A report from the National Association of Headteachers (NAHT) reveals the profession is facing «stark teacher recruitment shortages.»

«Some of the biggest frustrations that I face as principal range from a shortage of quality teachers and under - funded federal and state mandates to aging facilities,» said principal Roy Sprinkle of the Bay Haven School in Sarasota, Florida.

Despite these seemingly positive statistics, England is still facing a shortage of teachers.

There is an emphasis on teachers in STEM subjects, such as maths and physics, as these areas are facing the greatest shortages.

Sara Ford, ASCL's Pay, Conditions and Employment Specialist, said: «Despite the strong consensus of evidence presented to them, the recommendations in the STRB's 25th Report will do nothing to address the teacher shortages facing schools.

The REC has recently reported that the UK faces an ever increasing shortage of teachers as many choose to leave the sector and it is failing to attract the quantity and calibre of candidates that it needs to fill vacancies.

In a statement he made at a news conference with Cuomo, Chase said the program may be a way to help reduce the looming teacher shortage facing our nation.

My second question was motivated by the evidence that schools face a shortage of teachers who have math and science skills (only 7 percent of teachers in the United States were math or science majors).

Texas faces a severe shortage of mathematics and physical - science teachers that state officials expect to grow even worse.

The UNHCR notes that education within the camps faces major challenges, «large number of school drop - out due to shortage of teaching and learning materials, school uniform, stationary and decimated number of qualified teacher.»

Faced with shortages due to new limits on class size, the district offered provisional certification to candidates who promised to take five education courses over three years and participate in a beginning teacher program.

However, many countries, particularly the developing countries, are facing an acute shortage of qualified teachers, while serving teachers are paid poorly (and sometimes irregularly) and, because of the scant qualifications needed to enter, suffer from low social and professional status.

Supply agencies have a major role to play in the development of a flexible workforce that can respond to the challenges that schools are facing, such as teacher shortages and increasing pupil numbers.

Jonathan Doherty and Kathryn Gerrard from Leeds Trinity University question whether there has ever been a better time to be a teacher, or are we facing a teacher supply shortage?

Just as California school districts are facing new pressures to implement the Common Core State Standards and other key educational reforms, many of them are struggling with what some officials are calling the early impacts of a long - feared teacher shortage.

Many areas of the country, including the Northwest, are facing severe teacher shortages.

Teacher Supply, Demand, and Shortages in the U.S.» Although initial coverage mainly took the report at face value, others have started to push back.

Facing a shortage of certified vocational education teachers, schools are increasingly hiring people who haven't had any instruction in how to teach.

Although TFA is by no means the entire solution to the problems facing public education, or even our teacher shortage, TFA is helping to redefine the educational and economic opportunities available in rural and urban communities.

Districts are also facing a shortage of minority teachers while their student bodies are becoming increasingly diverse.

«Facing this critical teacher shortage, we have to cast a very wide net,» Jason said.

Yet more jobs than ever will require post-secondary education and training, and job growth is high in STEM subjects, for which schools face some of the greatest teacher shortages.

The Gopher State faces severe shortages of teachers in special education, math, science and engineering.

For example, many low - income countries face challenges related to poverty, illness and labor shortages that create teacher shortages.

«We are facing a looming teacher shortage and it is due in part to the way we portray the profession,» said Evers in a statement.

She said the Conservatives were «blinded by their political positioning on free schools», and had «totally failed to address the big challenges facing education», including teacher shortages, the widening attainment gap, the school places crisis and «severe cuts» to post-16 education.

There's no coherent plan and no real answers to the major problems facing schools: teacher shortages, impending curriculum nightmares, vulnerable learners increasingly affected by poverty.

In the face of these altered conditions, the TFA public relations machine now deemphasizes teacher shortages and instead accentuates one crucial adjective: «quality.»

Facing a statewide and national trend in a shortage of special education teachers, LA Unified officials are mounting an aggressive campaign to find them.