Baltimore’s public schools start the new year in just 25 days … and  the system is still looking to hire hundreds of teachers for vacancies.  How will classrooms be affected and what’s being done to get educators in place?

The schools’ chief of staff, Alison Perkins-Cohen, says the system has been recruiting energetically and still is. But, she warns Baltimore and Maryland are not alone in the teacher deficit:

“All of us need to be thinking nationally about how do we solve this problem and how do we make teaching more attractive to young people as such the important job that it is in terms of really shaping the future.”

Plus Baltimore Teachers Union officer Cristina Duncan Evans … explains teachers are excited for the new school year but the effects of burnout are real.    

Baltimore’s public schools start the new year in just 25 days … and  the system is still looking to hire hundreds of teachers for vacancies.  How will classrooms be affected and what’s being done to get educators in place?
The schools’ chief of staff, Alison Perkins-Cohen, says the system has been recruiting energetically and still is. But, she warns Baltimore and Maryland are not alone in the teacher deficit:
“All of us need to be thinking nationally about how do we solve this problem and how do we make teaching more attractive to young people as such the important job that it is in terms of really shaping the future.”
Plus Baltimore Teachers Union officer Cristina Duncan Evans … explains teachers are excited for the new school year but the effects of burnout are real.

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