NC schools have more than 3,500 teaching vacancies. How can the state get more teachers?
Schools are increasingly turning to less-qualified applicants who are changing careers to help fill vacant teaching positions.
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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.
RALEIGH, North Carolina—Skylar Harrison—who recently graduated from North Lenoir High School and is a first-year student in elementary education at NC State University—has been selected to be part of the
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