Pandemic Teacher Shortages Imperil In-Person Schooling
The nation’s schools need thousands of more teachers, full-time and substitute, to keep classrooms open during coronavirus outbreaks.
“We had to embrace an all-hands-on-deck mind-set to keep schools open,” said Joe Ernst, an area superintendent who oversees 24 Washoe County schools in Nevada.Credit.Salgu Wissmath for The New York Times
Published Jan. 19, 2021Updated Jan. 23, 2021
As exposure to the coronavirus forced thousands of teachers across the United States to stay home and quarantine this winter, administrators in the Washoe County School District, which serves 62,000 students in western Nevada, pulled out all the stops to try to continue in-person instruction for students.
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Gwinnett County Public Schools is facing a shortage of substitute teachers who can fill in when a classâ teacher is sick or has another emergency that precludes them from coming to work.
Numbers that were presented to the countyâs school board on Thursday show the districtâs pool of available substitute teachers is down by more than 1,000 individuals so far this year. Associate Superintendent for Human Resources and Talent Management Monica Batiste told school board members that there are currently 2,021 people in the districtâs pool of available substitute teachers.
By comparison, there were 3,046 available substitute teachers available to Gwinnett county Public Schools during the 2019-2020 school year.