{"id":1172,"date":"2016-08-26T14:40:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T14:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2017-01-05T11:03:51","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T17:03:51","slug":"clark-county-teacher-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/blog\/insights\/clark-county-teacher-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"Clark County Teacher Shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Clark County teacher shortage is pretty desperate. \u00a0Last year they started the year still short 700 teachers &#8211; and didn&#8217;t have them by the end of the year. That meant a lot of long term substitutes, moving people around and bigger classrooms and kids suffer.<\/p>\n<p>So they got real aggressive this year recruiting from all over the state to <strong>fill<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/schooled\/2015\/09\/22\/las_vegas_teacher_shortage_can_the_city_of_sin_fix_its_teacher_shortage.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> 1700 teaching positions this year<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; and they came close. \u00a0Much closer than in past years.<\/p>\n<p>Must see:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/blog\/insights\/teacher-shortage\">How To Battle The Teacher Shortage Crisis [13 Experts Share Ideas]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But the local school board keeps messing with salaries so it may be a little bait and switch. They are promising better salaries but the school board keeps freezing salary jumps leaving people out in the cold. Also they hire a \u00a0lot of out of state teachers from California paying them a little more than they made in their previous district. So they have teachers with less experience making more than teachers who have taught longer.<\/p>\n<p>That is not a good situation. \u00a0Their budget will get stressed, more freezes may come and higher teacher turnover will mean even more vacancies to fill.<\/p>\n<p>The Clark County Teacher shortage will get worse &#8211; they may have some breathing room now &#8211; but it will get worse soon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Clark County teacher shortage is pretty desperate. \u00a0Last year they started the year still short 700 teachers &#8211; and didn&#8217;t have them by the end of the year. That &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[122,121],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insights","tag-teacher-retention","tag-teacher-turnover"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2025-02-12 07:34:29","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172"}],"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=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teachersoftomorrow.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}