{"id":993,"date":"2016-06-23T16:13:58","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T16:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/?p=993"},"modified":"2016-07-07T20:13:22","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T20:13:22","slug":"teacher-hiring-ed-school-grads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/blog\/insights\/teacher-hiring-ed-school-grads\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher Hiring Up! Ed School Grads Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twin Falls Idaho may not seem like the perfect summary of the <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/2TpSr0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">teacher shortage<\/a> &#8211; but it is. \u00a0In an article today it provides the perfect insight into what is happening in the teacher pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>Teacher hiring is up due to improved school budgets. School budgets are driven in large part (44% on average) by local taxes with only 15% coming from the feds and the rest coming from the state. \u00a0So budgets have improved as property taxes have generated more revenue.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time education school graduates are way down &#8211; more than half over the last 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>And the shortage hits the usual areas the hardest &#8211; STEM, Special Education, Rural and high needs schools struggle to find the talent they need.<\/p>\n<p>School budgets are finally increasing yet we can&#8217;t find staff so class sizes will continue to increase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twin Falls Idaho may not seem like the perfect summary of the teacher shortage &#8211; but it is. \u00a0In an article today it provides the perfect insight into what is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":985,"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":[49,48,50],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/media\/decline-in-education-majors.jpg","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2024-05-10 07:21:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993"}],"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=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}