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Schools aren't hiring like before
On paper, Katie Chalkley is the perfect applicant. Certified to teach fourth- to eighth-grade math, she has spent three years as a substitute teacher in Denton where her students had a 90 percent TAKS pass rate.
“I've filled out 73 applications since the beginning of summer,” said Chalkley, 25, who graduated from the University of North Texas in May. “(The districts) tell me, ‘We want to hire you, we wish we could.'”
After months of applying to five schools a day, Chalkley finally heard back from a school in Athens in the Fort Worth school district, for a position as a sixth-grade math teacher.
“I got hired on the spot!” she said. “I have been crying since I walked out of his office.”
Because of the Legislature's initial $4 billion cut from public school funding, districts are slicing at least 6 percent from their budgets for the first year of the biennium. Options for grads trying to get their foot in the teaching door look bleak. But as districts work out budgets for the coming school year, many are finding a little more room than expected to hire new teachers because of resignations, retirements and pre-emptive cuts.
“Some districts, like those in San Antonio, may have skewed things when they offered incentives or people decided to retire,” said Linda Bridges , president of Texas American Federation of Teachers . “So districts will have to hire, but not in the large numbers they were before.”
Based on a general survey of most districts, the number of new teachers hired is down by 74 percent from last year. Though districts are hiring, open positions are limited. Many are shuffling employees to fill newly consolidated positions. Chalkley said she hit many such walls — notices stamped “For internal applicants only” — when applying in the Austin Independent School District.
In addition to the lower hiring and recruiting numbers, teachers are being hired later in the year. Jobs typically available in April or May might not appear until August, if at all, and graduates are starting to panic, said Denise Staudt , dean of the Dreeben School of Education at the University of the Incarnate Word .
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“It definitely hurts us being low on the totem pole compared to experienced teachers,” said Marivel Garcia, who graduated from UIW in December and is now teaching kindergarten full time in East Central ISD. “We're not getting anywhere unless
The district's middle schools have followed a similar order for the past several years, with Eastern Middle School leading the pack, followed by Central and Western middle schools. There has been some improvement, as well as some setbacks.
According to annual ratings released by the state Friday, North East and Northside independent school districts each was named a recognized district for the fourth straight year. Alamo Heights Independent School District is ranked academically
Uecker has been talking with ISD #709 to try to get every Duluth school to integrate a waystation. The project teaches children about monarchs, their migration, and their life cycle, he said. He should know—he has been raising monarchs and caring for
I would like to convey my appreciation that that objective has been met.†To reach the $3.7 million reduction, administration is recommending cutting campus staff and budgets by $880000; reducing central office staff and budgets by $2.5 million;
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