NCES: Nearly half of public schools impacted by staffing shortages, resignations


NCES: Nearly half of public schools impacted by staffing shortages, resignations

By
 
Naaz Modan 
k12dive.com
3 min



Dive Brief:

  • Almost half, or 44%, of public schools report having full- or part-time teacher vacancies, in a nationally representative survey of 670 public schools conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics. More than half of schools (57%) with one or more vacancies said they increasingly needed to use teachers for work outside their job descriptions.

  • Schools with at least one vacancy also said special education had the highest teaching vacancies, at 45%, followed by general elementary teaching positions (31%) and substitute teachers (20%). 

  • Of public schools that reported at least one vacancy, 61% cited the COVID-19 pandemic as a cause of increased teaching and non-teaching staff vacancies. The leading cause of vacancies for 51% of schools was resignation rather than retirement. 

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