{"id":1180,"date":"2016-09-16T15:30:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T15:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/?p=1180"},"modified":"2016-09-16T15:32:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T15:32:06","slug":"florida-teachers-wanted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/blog\/insights\/florida-teachers-wanted\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Teacher Wanted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida teaching shortage continues to get worse. Same issues as other states but with a heavier increase in student population, the schools cannot keep up. \u00a0The recent <a href=\"http:\/\/localhost\/blog\/insights\/understanding-teacher-shortages\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Learning Policy Institute<\/a> study highlighted Florida&#8217;s struggles with the fact<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/local\/palm-beach\/fl-florida-teacher-shortage-20160915-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> 28% of all teachers in the state<\/a> have less than 3 years experience.<\/p>\n<p>It is one of the reasons we launched <a href=\"http:\/\/www.floridateachers.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Florida Teachers<\/a>! To help school districts fill the gap &#8211; as noted in the article:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Florida&#8217;s student population, which will top 2.8 million this year, has grown while the number of graduates from teacher preparation programs has dropped <strong>by more than 2,500<\/strong> since 2009. But educators trained through a variety of alternative programs have filled the gap.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Alternative teacher certification programs are the answer to getting more teachers in the classroom and nobody does it better than we do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Florida teaching shortage continues to get worse. Same issues as other states but with a heavier increase in student population, the schools cannot keep up. \u00a0The recent Learning Policy &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1163,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[29],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/media\/FL-TEACHER-48137B-08-02-2016-NEAR.jpg","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2024-05-09 18:24:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}