Since being appointed by the Texas Education Agency on June 1, Superintendent Mike Miles initially said NES teachers would make an average salary of $85,000 per year with a potential $10,000 stipend. Under the district's new pay scale, however, some teachers are compensated less than what was announced.
A "crisis in the quality of classroom teaching" is the biggest barrier to providing students with the support they need to overcome unfinished learning, according to a poll of district leaders that was conducted by the Center on Reinventing Public Education.
Enrollment at Fremont County School District #24 was down to around 320 students in 2013, 40 short of the benchmark that would provide more state funding to expand programming for students.
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The small district’s apprenticeship program lets aspiring teachers earn a bachelor’s degree and teacher certification at no cost. In return, participants must work at the district for at least three years.
Five decades ago, the U.S. was training an army of college students to become teachers, with 1 in every 5 bachelor's degrees earned in the field of education. Today, college students are more likely to study business, engineering, and even the visual and performing arts.
“They were expecting the base salaries for all NES schools to be $80,000 or more,” said Michelle Williams, President of the Houston Education Association. Williams represents HISD teachers, and she said some of her members have salary offers less than what they already make.
According to the Teachers Retirement System, 2,810 public education employees retired at some point during the 2022-23 school year, down from 3,337 the year before. A decade-old record was broken during the 2020-21 school year when 3,515 employees left local school systems.
There are more than 260,000 students in Broward County, Florida, and about 1,300 jobs available as the new school year approaches. The School District of Philadelphia, with less than half that number of students, has almost as many vacancies.
District leaders are implementing new restrictions as they look to eliminate distractions and shift academic recovery into a higher gear in the 2023-24 school year.
