A recent report by the National Audit Office, which prompted this week's Public Accounts Committee hearing, also showed a nine-fold increase in
teacher vacancies between 2011 and 2014.
Not exact matches
London and the two regions closest to the capital, the South East (5.29) and East of England (5.91), all had
vacancy rates per school above the national average for England as a whole, with schools across London averaging more than 6.5 advertisements per schools for main scale
teachers during the period
between January and the end of July 2015.
For reducing the achievement gap
between the Atlanta Public Schools and the State of Georgia, lowering the dropout rate, cutting back the number of
teacher vacancies, and renovating and consolidating some of Atlantas schools, Atlanta superintendent Dr. Beverly L. Hall earned the 2006 Richard R. Green Award, the nations highest honor for urban education leadership, at the Council of the Great City Schools 50th Annual Fall Conference.
Although most districts report decreases in
vacancies and new hires
between 2016 — 17 and 2017 — 18, 75 % report they were unable to fill all their
vacancies with fully credentialed
teachers for this year.Note: 24 of the 25 districts surveyed reported whether they were able to fill all vacant positions with qualified
teachers in 2017 — 18.
The number of
teacher vacancies in West Virginia more than doubled
between 2013 and 2017.
In February, the NAO's training new
teachers report warned the department was not doing enough to train new
teachers after
vacancy numbers almost increased ten-fold
between 2010 and 2014.
University of Wisconsin - Madison professor Peter Goff estimates that Wisconsin schools spend
between $ 4,000 and $ 9,000 to hire a
teacher.57 And increased
vacancies mean that districts may have to lower their standards in order to fill teaching slots.
While 30 % of
teacher vacancies are in special education downstate, an additional 40 % of
vacancies are evenly distributed
between science, math, foreign language, and bilingual education.