As the COVID-19 pandemic drags on, schools across the United States are on the brink of collapse.
There is a classroom teacher shortage.
There is a substitute teacher shortage.
There is a bus driver shortage.
There is a special education aide shortage.
The people we depend on to staff our public schools are running away in droves.
It’s a clear supply and demand issue that calls for deep structural changes.
However, it’s not really new. We’ve needed better compensation and treatment of school employees for decades, but our policymakers have been extremely resistant to do anything about it.
Instead, they’ve given away our tax dollars to corporations through charter and voucher school initiatives. They’ve siphoned funding to pay for more standardized testing, teaching to the test, and ed…
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