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By Adrienne Washington
Cronkite News
WASHINGTON – Nearly one-third of teaching positions in Arizona public and charter schools were still vacant one month into the school year, according to a new report, the most in eight years of data on school vacancies.
The Arizona School Personnel Administrators Association report for the 2023-24 school year said that 29.7% of teaching positions were still vacant in September, up from 26.6% at the same time last year. That translated into 2,230 vacant teaching positions through the first few weeks of this school year.
The report also said that 53.2% of teachers in the classroom this year do not meet the state’s standard certification requirements, but are allowed to teach under an alternative pathway. Continue reading “Nearly a third of teacher slots vacant for this school year, highest in eight years”