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Pharaoh

(8,209 posts)
Tue Sep 8, 2015, 11:59 PM Sep 2015

Teacher shortage in Wisconsin affecting local school district

Thanks Scott Walker!

Douche!

LA CROSSE, Wis. (WKBT) -

There are only a few weeks until the first day of school and the La Crosse School District still has quite a few open positions, and it's a problem that isn't unique to La Crosse.


Before the school year begins on Sept. 1 the district needs to fill 23 different positions, but the district said that's proving to be difficult because the number of applicants continues to drop each year.

"You can't just take anybody off the street to do those jobs," said Steve Salerno, associate superintendent of human resources for the school district.

Salerno said until 2011 there were virtually no issues trying to fill an open position, but since then, trying to find a teacher, administrator, even a teaching assistant has been been difficult.


http://www.news8000.com/schools/teacher-shortage-in-wisconsin-affecting-local-school-district/34560822

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Teacher shortage in Wisconsin affecting local school district (Original Post) Pharaoh Sep 2015 OP
Nationwide we have teacher shortages... TreasonousBastard Sep 2015 #1
My neice was all set to enter Education as her major riversedge Sep 2015 #3
Walker-Our reforms removed the special interest stranglehold and allowed Wisconsin’s teachers to do riversedge Sep 2015 #2
^^ this ^^ Pharaoh Sep 2015 #4

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
1. Nationwide we have teacher shortages...
Wed Sep 9, 2015, 12:06 AM
Sep 2015

Walker clones have not only shredded teacher education, but scared off a lot of graduates from entering the field.

And local budget bullshit hasn't helped

riversedge

(69,721 posts)
3. My neice was all set to enter Education as her major
Wed Sep 9, 2015, 10:18 PM
Sep 2015

a few years ago--then this crap hit the fan. She withdrew her application to the School of education.

riversedge

(69,721 posts)
2. Walker-Our reforms removed the special interest stranglehold and allowed Wisconsin’s teachers to do
Wed Sep 9, 2015, 10:16 PM
Sep 2015

Love this tweet back to Walker's tweet


Scott Walker ?@ScottWalker 44m44 minutes ago

Our reforms removed the special interest stranglehold and allowed Wisconsin’s teachers to do what they do best: educate our kids.
18 retweets 27 favorites
Not backing down retweeted
Peter Esche ?@Emmett_Stone 26m26 minutes ago

.@ScottWalker This is why you're polling @ 3%. Workers are not the "special interests". The Koch brothers are. They own YOU, not teachers.

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