America has a teacher shortage. The coronavirus is making it unbelievably worse.
The 33-year-old teacher, who taught seventh and eighth grade math at the Rochester City School District in Rochester, New York, was told that he was being let go at the end of the school year. His school district had been struggling with a $150 million budget deficit since December, and the coronavirus pandemic put the final nail in the coffin.
‘I’m pretty sure this was unprecedented’Education jobs accounted for two-thirds of the 585,000 government jobs lost in May, according to the most recent report. In April, 469,000 public school district personnel across the country — K-12 teachers and other school employees — lost their jobs. And the problem now is that if the federal government does not provide states with the aid that they desperately need, a lot of re-hiring looks unlikely.
“There are no magic fixes for this economy — only a path to recovery if we keep up the stimulus and investments to fund, rather than forfeit, the future,” Weingarten, leader of the country’s second-largest teachers union, said in a statement. “We urgently need the federal funding... If we fail to act, essential services will be gutted, schools won't be able to reopen and public employees will stay laid off.
Story continuesIn Minnesota, between 2017-18, 41.9% of school districts reported that they were facing a ‘serious problem’ with the shortage of teachers, and 12.7% reported that they had to cancel classes or programs due to the lack of teachers.
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