Teachers still not returned to work
Drilling down,
Elise Gould of the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute
notes: "public education jobs are still 236,000 less than they were seven
years ago. The number of teachers rose by 41,700 over the last year. While this
is clearly a positive sign, adding in the number of public education jobs that
should have been created just to keep up with enrollment, we are currently
experiencing a 410,000 job shortfall in public education. Short sighted
austerity measures have a measurable impact, hitting children in today's
classrooms." http://bit.ly/1L8FV2R
Except perhaps in California where districts are giving jobs to non credentialed teachers. The following is a repost.
Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil.
by Duane Campbell. Prof. Emeritus. Bilingual/Multicultural Education. CSU-S.
In 2015 after the Great Recession a new state budgets sent large amounts of funds to k-12 schools and the funds of the Local Control and Accountability Plan were targeted to low income schools. This increased funding will lead to a dramatic need for new teachers. Sacramento City Unified plans to hire 100 new teachers, and many other local urban districts will do the same. This faculty growth will continue for from 3-5 years.
But credentialed teachers from the Latino community and several Asian communities will not be available to hire because the Sac State pipeline for minority teachers has been broken. A new generation of mostly Anglo teachers will be hired which will continue the past failure to integrate the teaching profession in this region. Ending the pipeline will shape the nature of the local teaching profession for decades. Latino students make up 37 % of Sac City Unified students, Asians 17.4 %, African Americans 17.7 %, and White students 18.8 %. Latino families now make up over 37 % of California residents and Latino descent children now make up over 50% of public school students.
The Bilingual Multicultural Education Department at Sac State was set up as a structure so that the university, CSU-Sacramento, could serve the community by preparing and advancing hundreds of Chicano and Asian teachers each year. Unfortunately, others shut down this vehicle. Between 1994 -2006, Latino descent students were about 35% of the total teacher preparation students each year ( 60 -90 students per semester). After the termination of the department in 2010, Latino descent students were less than 10% of the total students in teacher preparation at Sac State (about 7 students). This decline was a direct consequence of eliminating the department.
