{"id":1606807,"date":"2022-08-15T13:17:12","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T17:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1606807"},"modified":"2022-08-15T13:17:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T17:17:27","slug":"unions-complain-of-dire-teacher-shortages-ahead-of-new-school-year-push-for-more-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/unions-complain-of-dire-teacher-shortages-ahead-of-new-school-year-push-for-more-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Unions Complain Of Dire Teacher Shortages Ahead Of New School Year, Push For More Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Funions-complain-of-dire-teacher-shortages-ahead-of-new-school-year-push-for-more-funding%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1606807&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">teacher<\/a> shortages loom ahead of the new school year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/teachers-unions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">union<\/a> leaders are calling for more financial resources.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/us-300000-teacher-school-staff-vacancies-nea-president\/story?id=88242614\">ABC News<\/a>, National Education Association President Rebecca Pringle estimated that the United States lacks 300,000 teachers and support staff \u2014 the fruition of a \u201ccrisis in the number of students who are going into the teaching profession and the number of teachers who are leaving it.\u201d Likewise, 55% of teachers reportedly consider exiting the profession earlier than they had expected.<\/p>\n<p>The shortage comes as COVID and the lockdown-induced recession prompted millions of Americans to retire or otherwise <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/americans-continue-to-opt-out-of-the-workforce\">exempt themselves<\/a> from the job market. The labor force participation rate has dropped from 66% in 2008 to 62% in 2022, falling 3% between February 2020 and April 2020 alone, according to data from the <a href=\"https:\/\/fred.stlouisfed.org\/series\/CIVPART\">Bureau of Labor Statistics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the shortage, Pringle recommended that citizens ask that \u201call of our schools are funded, so all of our students have what they need and they deserve.\u201d American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, meanwhile, pointed to \u201cinadequate support and resources\u201d and \u201csubpar compensation\u201d in a July\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aft.org\/press-release\/aft-unveils-report-teacher-and-school-staff-shortages\">press release<\/a> discussing the teacher shortage.<\/p>\n<p>Despite claims of poor funding, there is by no means a lack of taxpayer dollars flowing toward government schools. A <a href=\"https:\/\/nces.ed.gov\/programs\/digest\/d19\/tables\/dt19_236.55.asp?current=yes\">report<\/a> from the National Center for Education Statistics indicated that the inflation-adjusted yearly expenditure per American pupil rose from $4,060 to $15,424 between 1960 and 2017 \u2014 a 280% increase. Another <a href=\"https:\/\/files.eric.ed.gov\/fulltext\/ED543118.pdf\">study<\/a> from the Department of Education revealed that schools increased the number of non-teaching staff by 702% between 1950 to 2009 and hired 252% more teachers over the same period.<\/p>\n<p>The state of Virginia, for example, \u201cwould have had an extra $29,007 to spend per teacher if it had limited the growth of administrators and other non-teaching staff\u201d from 1992 to 2009, according to the study.<\/p>\n<p>As Robert Bortins \u2014 the CEO of Christian homeschool curriculum provider Classical Conversations \u2014 explained to The Daily Wire, the bloated funding occurs even as the United States remains in a mediocre position on many international education metrics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the New York Yankees, who routinely have the highest payroll in the MLB, missed the playoffs almost 100% of the time, the front office would be fired, not given more money,\u201d Bortins noted. \u201cGiving our current government education system \u2014 a group of individuals who can\u2019t even properly identify man versus woman \u2014 more money is not the solution to providing our children a better education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, unions themselves likely play a role in the educator shortage, according to Bortins. \u201cTeacher unions have helped create this broken system through decades of legislative reform that are designed to give themselves power, rather than empowering families to give their children a great education,\u201d he continued. \u201cTeacher unions support legislation that puts unneeded and unnecessary licensing burdens on new teachers, keeping qualified individuals out of the profession due to being improperly credentialed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Tate \u2014 the founder of the Classic Learning Test, a standardized exam geared toward students with Christian and classical educations \u2014 told The Daily Wire that \u201cthe motivating force\u201d behind teachers unions is \u201cnot serving students, but protecting teachers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNothing discourages young people from entering the teaching profession more than teachers unions and the policies they push. Teaching is inherently a heroic calling, but the unions put an ugly stain on the beauty and dignity of this great profession,\u201d he said. \u201cPouring your life into the next generation is a high and beautiful calling for young people and they get excited about it. But having to join the ranks of an organization that clearly doesn\u2019t want the best for students kills this excitement.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As teacher shortages loom ahead of the new school year, union leaders are calling for more financial resources. In a recent interview with ABC News, National Education Association President Rebecca Pringle estimated that the United States lacks 300,000 teachers and support staff \u2014 the fruition of a \u201ccrisis in the number of students who are &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1606952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1606807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1606807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1606952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1606807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1606807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1606807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}