{"id":1132,"date":"2016-08-05T17:04:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T17:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/?p=1132"},"modified":"2017-01-05T10:26:17","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T16:26:17","slug":"teachers-emergency-waivers-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/blog\/insights\/teachers-emergency-waivers-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers on Emergency Waivers on the Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you can&#8217;t find teachers, you hire people who are not licensed and put them on emergency waivers. We have seen a startling increase of of the number of teachers on emergency waivers going into this school year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/QYgxyf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arkansas has 15%<\/a> of its teachers on emergency waivers &#8211; and it is always math, science and special education and usually students from high needs schools that get these teachers. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wvtm13.com\/news\/teacher-shortage-in-jefferson-county\/41047770\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jefferson County in Alabama<\/a> still has 60 positions open one week before school starts.<\/p>\n<p>But an Idaho article really made me chuckle a little because &#8211; &#8220;A hiring emergency is not really an emergency&#8221; according to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rexburgstandardjournal.com\/news\/education\/local-school-officials-give-latest-on-teacher-shortage-explain-hiring\/article_84a07bec-5a85-11e6-9500-3be8a6670089.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Madison School District superintendent.<\/a> There issue is the same as others &#8211; they used to have 10-20 applications per opening allowing them to pick the best qualified and best match for their schools &#8211; now they only get 1-2 applications per opening meaning they are taking what is there.<\/p>\n<p>So &#8211; as we keep saying &#8211; it is not so much the teacher shortage that is sending people in to an &#8220;emergency&#8221;, it is the talent shortage. If you don&#8217;t have a really good choice of candidates you end up settling on the person in front of you.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s not good enough for our students.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you can&#8217;t find teachers, you hire people who are not licensed and put them on emergency waivers. We have seen a startling increase of of the number of teachers &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[50,63],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2024-11-12 10:28:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}