{"id":92485,"date":"2024-08-03T09:26:43","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T13:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=92485"},"modified":"2024-08-03T09:31:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T13:31:15","slug":"where-are-all-the-special-educators-aldeman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2024\/08\/03\/where-are-all-the-special-educators-aldeman\/","title":{"rendered":"Where are all the Special Educators? [Aldeman]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.educationnext.org\/where-are-all-the-special-educators-teacher-shortage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Where are all the Special Educators?<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from educationnext.org by Chad Aldeman<br \/>\n<em>Schools employ more special education teachers than ever. So why is there a shortage?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Is there a shortage of special education teachers in America\u2019s public schools? If so, why? And how can policymakers fix it?<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The first question sounds like an easy one. Yes, there is a shortage of special education teachers. In 2023\u201324, more than\u00a0half of districts\u00a0and 80 percent of\u00a0states\u00a0reported such a shortage.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">If you doubt the self-reported data, a simple back-of-the-envelope calculation will lead you to the same conclusion. About 46,000 special education teachers leave public schools every year, while teacher preparation programs are training fewer than 30,000 new ones to replace them. Even if districts can supplement those new trainees with teachers who are re-entering the profession, that still makes for a very tight labor market.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Rapidly Rising Demand<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">The percentage of public school students who receive special education services\u00a0has risen\u00a0over time, reaching 15 percent in 2022\u201323. That increase has been propelled by a number of factors, including better and earlier identification of students who need additional support.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where are all the Special Educators? &#8212; from educationnext.org by Chad Aldeman Schools employ more special education teachers than ever. So why is there a shortage? Is there a shortage of special education teachers in America\u2019s public schools? If so, why? And how can policymakers fix it? The first question sounds like an easy one. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[851,343,46,102,7,382,66,89,321,445],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bias-diversity-equity-inclusion-dei","category-education","category-k-12-related","category-learning","category-learning-ecosystem","category-neurodivergent-special-needs","category-student-related","category-teachers","category-united-states","category-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92485"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92488,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92485\/revisions\/92488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}