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Almost half of the 40 employees at the Marshalltown Central Rivers Area Education Agency (AEA) location have left in the last four months. The mass exodus is

The shortage of educators and school staffers has reached a crisis level in some Pennsylvania public schools. The state will need to fill thousands of vacancies for teachers, principals and administrative staff by August of 2025 - according to a report from the Pennsylvania Department of Education. Billy Hileman, president of the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers, said theres been a decline in enrollment for teacher education programs at universities in the past decade. ...

By Olivia Sanchez for The Hechinger Report.Broadcast version by Terri Dee for Indiana News Service reporting for The Hechinger Report-Public News Service Collaboration People who read college applications are a lot like detectives. Without having been there for the event (the students K-12 education and life), they must find clues in documents (high school transcripts and student essays) and eyewitness accounts (letters of recommendation) to solve the case (decide whether a student might be abl...

Education advocates are calling on lawmakers to increase funding for programs to combat the teacher shortage. Around 37% of schools nationwide report being short at least one teacher. The problem is worse at schools serving high-poverty neighborhoods where more than half report a vacancy. ...

The bills, they warn, could have serious consequences for public education amid growing concerns about teacher retention in the state.

(The Center Square) – A Republican senator who introduced a bill to raise teacher salaries was named the next commissioner of the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education on

The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) looks to keep students at area schools interested in education.

It takes a village to raise a child, goes the Africal proverb, and the village is doing that once again this summer by offering free children’s meals.

The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education will pay the fees for those interested in earning their educator certification during the next few months.

PED NEWS RELEASE New Mexico’s Secretary of Education Arsenio Romero has announced his top leadership team, comprised of educators eager to make a difference in the lives of students across the state.Two cabinet members are internal, two come from leadership roles around New Mexico and one heralds from a diverse area of Texas. All are…