COVID Exacerbates the Teacher Shortage

Throughout the country, class sizes are expanding but the teaching pool is shrinking. School districts are offering signing bonuses and a range of cash incentives for teachers and education experts.

States throughout the country are facing an unprecedented teacher shortage. Our state has experienced this shortage for years, with COVID, however, the systemic issues our public education system always faces have been exposed and greatly exacerbated. Now that more kids are entering our schools, it is important we provide them, at the very least, with teachers in classrooms. Education funding cannot remain in the back-burner of our state’s budget agenda, our kids deserve better.

Haven Daley for Associated Press

COVID-19 creates dire US shortage of teachers, school staff

By Jocelyn Gecker, NY Times | 9/23/2021