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Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Teacher Shortage Coming

From the Associated Press:

GREENSBURG, Ind. – School districts across Indiana are having trouble finding people to fill open teaching positions as the number of first-time teacher licenses issued by the state has dropped by 63 percent in recent years.

The Indiana Department of Education reports the state issued 16,578 licenses to first-time teachers, including teachers with licenses in multiple subject areas, in the 2009-2010 school year. That number dropped to 6,174 for the 2013-14 school year, the most recent for which data were available, the Greensburg Daily News reported.

The dwindling pool of educators is raising alarm in some school districts as they struggle to fill open positions, especially in math, science and foreign languages.

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School leaders say state funding constraints, testing pressures and a blame-the-teachers mentality have steered people away from education as a career.

Many education programs have seen their enrollments drop in recent years.

Enrollment in Ball State University’s elementary and kindergarten teacher-preparation programs has fallen 45 percent in the last decade. Other schools are reporting similar declines.

Indiana has been reformier than many states and they're reaping the rewards now - fewer people want to become teachers and/or are becoming teachers.

Reformers don't really care, of course, because one of the main goals of education reform is to deprofessionalize teachers, drive down pay and benefits, strip teachers of autonomy and replace them with Mcworkers.

It's starting to look like mission accomplished in Indiana.

15 comments:

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  3. California is so desperate to get teachers they are paying a bonus and raid each other for the dwindling talent.

    I also am starting to see it in the City as the school building I was in advertized for a math position on the new teacher's website and got no responses.

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