I-TEAM: Amid U.S. teacher shortage, where do we stand locally?
The I-TEAM finds as many as one in five teachers in Richmond County schools are being hired with an emergency or provisional waiver.
As another school year begins, another warning flashes about the state of our local classrooms.
“It’s really bad. It’s really bad.” Leelila Strogov is the founder of Atomicmind, a foundation that provides free financial counseling for school scholarships to students from kindergarten and into college.
She says she’s finding across the country the phrase “teacher shortage” isn’t accurate.
“It’s ultimately a misnomer. Teacher shortages implies that there’s literally a shortage of teachers and there aren’t a shortage of teachers. What .. what there is a shortage of is teachers in classrooms. So really, what we have is a recruitment and retention failure.”