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The Transformational Scholarship provides $40,000 toward tuition at NC State's College of Education to students from eastern North Carolina who intend to return to that region to teach.
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“Although on paper, it looks like we have a vacancy, we don't have a void,” says superintendent Michael Sasscer. Edenton-Chowan Schools is pairing a new or substitute teacher with an experienced teacher in a co-teaching relationship to fill its vacancies.
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Over the past decades, state funding for schools has fluctuated. To understand what that looks like, WUNC's education reporter Liz Schlemmer spoke with two veteran teachers.
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The North Carolina Association of Educators is opposing a state plan to change how teachers are licensed and paid. Representatives for the teachers' association held a press conference Tuesday saying the plan might worsen, rather than alleviate, a growing teacher shortage.
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Sessions will deal with bullying, suicide, opioids and other substance use among other challenges children now face. The training also will address trauma and victimization among children and adolescents, and how all of these things impact school climate and school safety.
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Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools has advantages when it comes to hiring teachers and staff that Edenton-Chowan Schools does not. But superintendents from both districts say they're struggling to find qualified applicants for open positions in time for fall.
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Students may be on summer break, but school principals are hard at work using these months to find a qualified, well-prepared teacher for every classroom come fall. Teacher turnover was higher than usual in some North Carolina districts this past year.
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Teacher turnover. Burnout. Short-staffed schools. After two years in a pandemic, for many people, life is getting back to some semblance of normal. With the end of virtual classes and mask mandates, schools are also returning to their pre-pandemic routines — but teachers say schools are not back to normal.
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In March 2022, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (DPI) released its State of the Teaching Profession report. For the 2020-2021 school year, New Hanover County Schools had a slightly higher attrition rate than the state average. WHQR checked in with some teachers who left the profession — and asked what’s being done to keep them in the classroom.
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The new model would create an alternative pathway for becoming a teacher and advanced roles that could increase a teacher's pay.