A predicted crisis in Kansas schools’ ability to staff classrooms with teachers may not be quite at emergency levels. But high levels of burnout and stress are leading to a dwindling pool of candidates to fill positions that do open up, and researchers worry the effects of continued attacks on the profession could snowball into few people becoming teachers in the first place. A Kansas Department of Education Teacher Vacancy and Supply Committee report from the spring showed that across the state, there were a little under 1,400 teacher vacancies in March 2022. A few months after the report, state education commissioner Randy Watson cautioned that Kansas schools could be bracing for “an educator shortage that may be the worst we have seen” in Kansas.
Source: CJonline
