California schools could be facing the largest number of teacher retirements ever, but factors like enrollment drops should take the sting out of it. Story from @CalMatters.
May 31 Professors, students, alumni, journalists, professional athletes, artists and and political activists are outraged over Nikole Hannah-Jones not receiving tenure with her appointment to UNC-Chapel Hill's faculty. And now, the decision is back in the hands of the UNC-CH Board of Trustees and she's considering legal action. Hannah-Jones is an investigative journalist for The New York Times .
Earlier this year, the California State Teachers Retirement System issued an ominous statement: teacher retirements in California are projected to hit nearly record-breaking heights in 2021.
The statement, which came in the form of a February blog post, said that the numbers will be almost as bad as the year after the Great Recession when more than 16,000 teachers retired.
While short term effects are being felt in some areas, in many school districts the tsunami of retirements is barely registering as a ripple. While interviews with administrators, teachers, and union leaders do not paint a rosy picture of the situation, neither is it expected to be crippling.
Matthew Jerome Schneider describes the barriers he faced as a first-generation graduate student and shares some lessons for other students as well as faculty members.