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PublishedDecember 14, 2023
School staffing shortages are leading to larger class sizes across the U.S.
The shortages had other effects on school life, including disruptions in student transportation, fewer extracurricular activities and a reduction in student services, according to data from a federal survey.
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PublishedDecember 10, 2023
Opinion: A thriving education system needs no advertising budget
We don't have a teacher shortage. We have a recruitment and retention problem.
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PublishedDecember 5, 2023
Maine launches $1 million ad campaign to attract teachers amid shortage
The initiative is funded with pandemic relief money and quantifies for the first time the number of educator vacancies in Maine: over 850.
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PublishedNovember 14, 2023
Deal reached to end teachers strike in Massachusetts town
Classes in Andover, Mass. have been canceled since Thursday.
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PublishedSeptember 21, 2023
Maine Voices: Remember the inestimable power of a good and caring teacher
From a portable classroom on the grounds of Sanford High School, Bill Ferguson – Ferg or Fergie, to his students – showed me the light.
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PublishedAugust 27, 2023
School year in Maine begins with familiar staffing shortages
Special-education teachers are in especially short supply.
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PublishedAugust 26, 2023
In some schools, dread over the new year: ‘We’re scared to teach’
Across the country, teachers are reporting to their unions and principals what they describe as a list of accruing traumas from their classrooms.
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PublishedAugust 19, 2023
Maine Voices: Despite centuries of education fads, good schooling always starts with good teachers
No substitute exists for the simple, clear eloquence and mentoring of the relationship between a student and an educator.
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PublishedMay 28, 2023
Maine adjunct professors join push for wage increases
The instructors acknowledge they have different roles than full-time faculty but say they should be paid similarly for performing the same tasks.
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PublishedMarch 30, 2023
Our View: Teacher shortage demands money more than innovation
Some of the latest proposals to tackle the lack of educators in Maine sidestep the most effective known solution: raising pay.
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