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Teachers in Michigan are taking home less pay than they did in past years, according to new research from Michigan State University. ... Researchers found a significant decline in teacher pay over ...
- How Bad Is Michigan’s Teacher Shortage?
- What Is Causing Michigan’s Teacher Shortage Problems?
- Where Is The Shortage Worst?
- How Have The Shortage Areas Changed?
- How Does The Struggle to Hire Qualified Teachers Affect Students?
- Will There Be Money in Next Year’S State School Aid Budget to Help?
- Won’T Federal Covid Relief Money Help?
- What Is The Michigan Department of Education Doing to Mitigate The Problem?
The number of public K-12 teachers has grown by 2% over the last decade while the student population has shrunk 9%, state datashows. But those numbers don’t tell the whole story about the difficulties districts are having filling teaching positions. The statistics are more nuanced than they appear, said Leah Breen, director of the Michigan Departme...
For many Michigan districts, a teacher shortage crisis has been brewing for years, beginning with the Great Recession of 2008-09, which left many schools reeling financially and caused widespread job uncertainty for staff. It continued as lawmakers enacted laws unpopular with educators that made it easier for school districts to fire teachers, weak...
It’s difficult for researchers to say which districts are struggling the most to hire teachers. The answer isn’t captured clearly in the data the state collects, said Katharine Strunk, director of the Education Policy Innovation Collaborative at Michigan State University. Districts in the sparsely populated Upper Peninsula, for example, have the hi...
Michigan, like many other states, has long had trouble finding enough teachers certified to teach special education, math, world languages, the sciences, English as a second language, and career and technical education courses. Recently, hiring difficulties reached elementary schools, where principals at one time had their pick of hundreds of appli...
Students are in larger classes and are sometimes being taught by uncertified long-term substitutes or educators teaching outside the grade levels and subject areas they trained for. Other students are being taught by educators who are stressed from the burden of covering for absent colleagues because of a troubling shortage of substitute teachers, ...
The governor, House and Senate agree there’s a problem, but they have vastly different ideas for how to address it and how much to spend on it. They have until July 1 — when school districts’ fiscal years begin — to hammer out the differences in their disparate spending plans. Whitmer’s plan is the most expensive, most complicated, and most controv...
Michigan schools received a $6 billion windfall as part of the federal government’s COVID relief package. Districts are using it for tutoring programs, summer school, computers, ventilation systems, and much more. Superintendents are reluctant to use it to hire staff because they would have to maintain the salaries for new hires after the three yea...
Last summer, the MDE launched the Welcome Back Proud Michigan Educators Campaignto help former teachers with lapsed credentials return to the profession. The program also provides the necessary professional development to open pathways to Michigan education majors who completed their programs but never became teachers. Last year, Rice approved new ...
May 15, 2024 · A teacher writes on a board in a math class at Southeastern High School in Detroit. Adjusted for inflation, Michigan teacher salaries have been on a steady decline, a report found.
Oct 2, 2022 · Michigan’s education sector continues to take a major hit as the teacher shortage has now become a crisis. That's according to the Michigan Education Association (MEA).
Michigan teachers were more likely to leave the classroom during the pandemic. School finance experts say districts are heading for a financial storm.
May 13, 2022 · Michigan has an older teaching population, and if many of them retire in the coming years, the state’s teacher shortage will be a crisis
Jan 24, 2024 · A report on Michigan’s teacher shortage found that despite high numbers of teachers leaving their jobs, the state has more total teachers employed at public schools than in the last 10 years despite declining statewide student enrollment.
