The number of teacher vacancies in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools — more than 500 as of last week — was big enough to grab attention. But the back-to-school scramble to find teachers isn’t limited to the state’s second-largest district.
For instance:
- Union County Public Schools reported 115 teacher vacancies last week, out of about 2,200 teachers. That’s proportionally similar to CMS, which has 8,742 teachers. Both have vacancy rates between 5% and 6%, with students returning to classrooms today.
- Cabarrus County Schools opened Aug. 10 and has 62 vacancies, for a rate of 3%. Like CMS, that district says about 20% of the vacant jobs are teachers for students with disabilities, a hard-to-fill specialty across the country.
