{"id":70905,"date":"2019-12-09T14:38:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T22:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/michigan\/?p=70905"},"modified":"2019-12-09T14:38:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T22:38:17","slug":"special-education-teacher-shortage-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/michigan\/teacher-resources\/news-center\/special-education-teacher-shortage-michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Education Teacher Shortage in Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"
There has been a thirty nine percent (39%) decline in Special Education graduates<\/strong> from educator preparation programs with just four hundred and thirteen (413) graduating in 2016 down from six hundred and seventy two (672) in 2012.\u00a0 This has resulted in increased class sizes for special education.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n There is a new bill, SB 657 that will help solve this special education teacher shortage. The bill would allow alternative certification programs like Michigan Teachers to apply to be a provider of Special Education teachers.<\/p>\n About Michigan Teachers of Tomorrow<\/strong>:<\/p>\n Michigan Teachers is part of Teachers of Tomorrow \u2013 a national organization that recruits, prepares and certifies teachers in eight (8) states.\u00a0 Over 60,000 teachers have gone through the program and started working in schools. Over forty-six percent (46%) are teachers of color making it one of the most diverse programs in the country.\u00a0 Teachers of Tomorrow has a seventy percent (70%) five (5) year retention rate and a large scale study in Texas found teachers in the program had comparable student achievement results when compared to teachers from standard routes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There has been a thirty nine percent (39%) decline in Special Education graduates from educator preparation programs with just four hundred and thirteen (413) graduating in 2016 down from six …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1500,1440,1498,1499,1497],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2024-05-09 23:24:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/michigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/michigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/michigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/michigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/michigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/michigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70906,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/michigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70905\/revisions\/70906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/michigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/michigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/michigan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n\n
\n <\/td>\n 2009-10<\/strong><\/td>\n 2017-18<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Special Education Teachers<\/td>\n 12,843<\/td>\n 11,060<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Special Education Students<\/td>\n 219,241<\/td>\n 198,536<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n Student \u2013 Teacher Ratio<\/td>\n 17.1<\/td>\n 18.0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n \n
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