by Beth Holmes | Feb 27, 2023 | News, Teacher Issues
A Kentucky bill aimed at solving their teacher shortage is moving forward through the state House of Representatives. House Bill 319 is a multi-feature bill aimed at getting more teachers into classrooms. Every county in Kentucky but one reports a shortage of...
by Beth Holmes | Oct 10, 2022 | News, Teacher Issues
Filipino teachers come to help alleviate the U.S. teacher shortage in our time of need. Carolyn Stewart is the superintendent for Bullhead City School District, a district based in Mohave County about 85 miles south of Las Vegas. Stewart has spent months trying to...
by Beth Holmes | Dec 13, 2021 | News, Teacher Issues
Teacher burnout is driving schools around the country to pull back a little from full-time in person learning. In mid-November, all Detroit public schools and a school district in Utah announced that through the rest of the calendar year, Fridays would be virtual...
by Supporting Education | Dec 9, 2019 | News, Teacher Issues
It feels like there’s always some crisis going on with teachers these days. Every news cycle, teachers are striking for better pay, more support, more staff. Their complaints are valid; many primary school teachers are paid so little they qualify for government...
by Sarah Green | Oct 12, 2016 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
For World Teacher Day, October 5, the UNESCO Institute of Statistics (UIS) released the results of a worldwide survey of ongoing teacher shortages. The first survey on the topic of this scale, it isn’t encouraging anywhere, but the numbers in sub-Saharan Africa in...
