California seeks more teachers to combat widespread shortage

by: Damian Trujillo
2023-08-16
Source: NBC Bay Area
08/30/2023

California is facing a teacher shortage so severe and widespread that the state school superintendent held a summit Monday to try to recruit more teachers.

California State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond said the state has to be more involved with recruitment and needs to increase compensation, prioritize training, improve working conditions and explore all other strategies.

Please help put parents in charge of their child’s education by forwarding this article to other parents, family, friends and voters.

Classroom by Jeffrey Hamilton is licensed under Unsplash unsplash.com

Other Articles

31-year-old California teacher’s jobs give him ‘time,’ ‘freedom’ and $115,000 a year—here’s how he spends his money

Jae Byun loves his job as a high school math teacher and basketball coach. And he makes six figures doing it.
Read More

What Are Schoolteachers Thinking? Report Gives Insights

Something Has to Change – Public school teachers cite student behavior and discipline issues (74%) as the top challenge they believe teachers currently face, followed by pay (65%.).
Read More

33 California schools awarded 2023 National Blue Ribbon honor

Four schools in Hacienda La Puente Unified, with 16,000 students in Los Angeles, received a National Blue Ribbon Award, the most this year from any California school district. The U.S. Department of Education announced the 353 public and private school winners nationwide, including 33 in California, on Tuesday (see pages 2 to 5 for California recipients).
Read More

Judge blocks school district from enforcing LGBT policy against Christian teachers

A federal judge has blocked a California school district from forcing Christian teachers to follow a policy requiring school officials to refrain from telling parents that their children identify as the opposite sex.
Read More

California public school enrollment continues decline, still reeling from pandemic plunge

Enrollment at California public schools has continued to decline this academic year, without any recovery from the steep drops seen during the pandemic — although the pace of the decrease has slowed.
Read More

Parent-Teacher Conferences: Tips for Successful Meetings

Tips and tricks for a smooth meeting process.
Read More

A journey of student loans: from high schoolers to graduating college

With October marking the start of federal student loan repayments, thousands of borrowers will face the looming reality that has been paused since 2020.
Read More

There's a hidden crisis among California's rural kids. Would this teen make it.

About eight years ago, educators in Modoc County realized they had a serious problem.
Read More