By Ariel Plasencia CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A new report shared with the North Carolina State Board of Education revealed that not only are thousands of teachers leaving classrooms in the state, but elementary schools are struggling the most to fill those empty spots. According to the report, more than half of the 5,749 teachers that...
By Kyle Hinchey An East Central High School teacher didn’t know what to think about his prominent role in Tulsa Regional Chamber Chairman David Stratton’s inaugural speech. Stratton highlighted AP math teacher David Lanning while addressing the need for increased education funding at the chamber’s annual meeting Thursday. Particularly, the chairman lauded a voluntary...
By Jeffrey S. Solochek When he speaks to the Florida Board of Education on Wednesday, Escambia County schools superintendent Malcolm Thomas has a stark message: The state’s teacher shortage is not improving. “Teacher recruitment and retention is a major concern for superintendents,” Thomas writes in his prepared comments, which appear on the board agenda. “There...
By Paul Bowers South Carolina stopped enforcing its size limits on most public school classrooms in 2010, bowing to the financial pressures of the Great Recession. Nearly nine years later, the state still does not enforce those limits. The teachers have noticed. “Right now, it feels like in order to save money people put...
By Phillip Reese When Rachel Valdivia-Ornelaz attended elementary school near Oxnard during the 1950s, none of her teachers were Latino. Later, over the course of a decades-long career as an elementary school teacher in Oxnard, she watched that pattern change, especially during the last few years. “Our district in Oxnard has been making a...
By Ruth Campbell Having virtual teachers for American Sign Language at Odessa and Permian high schools has worked out well, but the students would still prefer having a face-to-face instructor. The Ector County Independent School District Board of Trustees approved using Proximity Learning to provide certified instructors for the course to teach via videoconferencing....
By Marlene Sokol TAMPA — Encouraged by rising high school graduation rates, Hillsborough County School District leaders have turned their focus to the younger years — in some cases, younger than kindergarten. At a School Board workshop Tuesday, Superintendent Jeff Eakins and his senior staff described goals and efforts aimed at kindergarten readiness and...
By Paula Ebben BOSTON (CBS) – The 2018 Massachusetts Elementary School Principal of the Year is the leader of a school in Boston where 80% of the students are economically disadvantaged and 32% do not speak English as their first language at home. This is his sixth year as Principal at the Michael J....
By Rita Templeton Teaching his 7th grade students to be compassionate to one another was already a priority in Justin Parmenter’s classroom – but when a high school freshman in his district shot and killed another student in the hallway over a personal conflict, it hit too close to home. He knew that he had...
By Chris Jones and Nadia Pflaum (KUTV) — Jamie Moffitt had a substitute teacher job lined up at Rose Springs Elementary in Tooele County. She was excited — she was about to do what she’d always wanted to do: Work with kids. The morning, however, started with some concerning warnings from people who greeted her...