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Over recent years, voices across the education establishment have been crying out about a rise in teacher vacancies in classrooms across North Carolina. But things are a bit more complicated. For example, in Charlotte Observer's late 2023 article on NC's alleged teacher shortage, it admits: School districts opened the school year with 3,584 teaching vacancies,
Understaffed school systems are turning to virtual teachers who teach via video, often hundreds of miles away from the classroom. Why students at one Granville County are getting more comfortable with the idea.
Schools are increasingly turning to less-qualified applicants who are changing careers to help fill vacant teaching positions.
The state opened the school year with 3,584 teaching vacancies, almost a 20 percent drop from the previous year, but many of the new hires are less qualified. There’s been a 51 percent decrease in the last decade in traditional teacher preparation program enrollment.
Annually at the start of school, the N.C. School Superintendents’ Association releases survey data from districts on vacancies. Take a look...