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Schools across the country are announcing teacher and staff layoffs as districts brace for the end of a pandemic aid package that delivered the largest one-time federal investment in K-12 education.
Teacher turnover rates are up since the pandemic, with about 23% of teachers leaving their school during the 2022-2023 school year, compared to a roughly 18% turnover rate in 2019, according to a ...
Myung J. Chun. A Southern California school district reached an agreement to settle a 2023 lawsuit from a former teacher who refused to adhere to the district’s gender identity-related policies ...
Teacher retention. Teacher retention is a field of education research that focuses on how factors such as school characteristics and teacher demographics affect whether teachers stay in their schools, move to different schools, or leave the profession before retirement. The field developed in response to a perceived shortage in the education ...
Problem Teacher. Robert Freeman, an elementary school principal in Fallon, Nev., agrees. He recalls one teacher who was a notorious bully. When he came onboard, "Other teachers inundated me with ...
Teacher tenure is a policy that restricts the ability to fire teachers, requiring a "just cause" rationale for firing. [1] The individual states each have established their own tenure systems. [2] Tenure provides teachers with protections by making it difficult to fire teachers who earn tenure.
Bullying by teachers can take many forms in order to harass and intimidate including: [21] Swearing, or yelling, especially in close proximity to the child. Using homophobic, sexist, [22] racial slurs, or direct personal attacks, comments targeting a child's disability or difference. Humiliating. Berating.
A teacher, also called a schoolteacher or formally an educator, is a person who helps students to acquire knowledge, competence, or virtue, via the practice of teaching . Informally the role of teacher may be taken on by anyone (e.g. when showing a colleague how to perform a specific task). In some countries, teaching young people of school age ...