Retirements, enrollment changes push need for teachers | News, Sports, Jobs
nholland@post-journal.com Submitted Photo Brianna Thompson, a State University of New York at Fredonia student-teacher, is pictured in a classroom in March 2020. Several schools are hiring teachers due to retirements and changes to student enrollment. As aging teachers retire and with changes to enrollment in education programs, schools in New York state are in need of teachers. According to statistics from New York State United Teachers there were more than 51,000 teachers in 2018 over the age of 55 and almost 36,000 aged 51-54 enrolled in the New York State Teachers’ Retirement System. T...