{"id":1629579,"date":"2022-09-01T11:19:34","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T15:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1629579"},"modified":"2022-09-01T11:19:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-01T15:19:54","slug":"white-house-to-invest-1m-to-address-teacher-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-to-invest-1m-to-address-teacher-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"White House to invest $1M to address teacher shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Fwhite-house-to-invest-1m-to-address-teacher-shortage%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=1629579&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--><div id=\"attachment_2743995\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2743995\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2743995\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/800.jpeg\" alt=\"FILE - In this March 13, 2020 file photo, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh talks about the postponement of the Boston Marathon during a news conference, in Boston. President-elect Joe Biden has selected Boston Mayor Marty Walsh as his labor secretary, choosing a former union worker who shares his Irish American background and working-class roots. The 53-year-old Walsh has served as the Democratic mayor of Boston since 2014. (AP Photo\/Michael Dwyer)\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/800.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/800-656x437-1.jpeg 656w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/800-768x512-1.jpeg 768w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2743995\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE \u2013 In this March 13, 2020 file photo, then-Boston Mayor Marty Walsh talks about the postponement of the Boston Marathon during a news conference, in Boston. (AP Photo\/Michael Dwyer)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 8:16 AM PT \u2013 Thursday, September 1, 2022<\/h5>\n<p>The Biden administration announces a slew of new funding to help schools fill their empty teaching positions. While speaking at the White House Wednesday, Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh said the White House will be investing over $100 million to fund teaching apprenticeships on top of their prior investment of $383 million.<\/p>\n<p>Experts point to the COVID-19 lockdowns, teacher burnout and low-pay as the primary reasons behind the current staffing shortage. This is in spite of the existence of teacher\u2019s unions who routinely bargained for higher wages and fought against any attempt to return to in-person learning during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cThis administration has invested over $383 million in apprenticeships already in a very short period of time,\u201d said Walsh. \u201cOur next round of apprenticeship funding will be over $100 million. We\u2019re going to prioritize education in the education sector as an opportunity for those funds to help address a national need and, quite honestly, a crisis and open up educational opportunities around the country.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Additionally, they sent out a joint letter to state and local school districts, which laid out what steps should be taken to entice more people to get their teaching credentials. This includes using funds from the $1.9 trillion relief package Joe Biden released earlier this year to increase wages.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cThis letter that we put out there, encouraging to take a series of actions to address the teacher shortage and school staff shortages in our country,\u201d Walsh noted. \u201cNow, this was not created by the pandemic. It was happening before the pandemic. The pandemic just shined a light on it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Pay teachers a livable and competitive wage.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecCardona?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SecCardona<\/a> and I are encouraging governors and district leaders to use funds in the American Rescue Plan and the $350 billion in State and Local Fiscal Recovery funds to increase teacher pay and reduce high turnover rates.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Secretary Marty Walsh (@SecMartyWalsh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SecMartyWalsh\/status\/1565050192260481024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 31, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Present for the announcement was First Lady Jill Biden who vowed to continue supporting teachers by advocating for increased wages.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cThere are so many other future educators out there who want to teach, but decide against it or decide to leave because so many obstacles stand in their way,\u201d said Mrs. Biden. \u201cAnd we\u2019ve seen that this summer. And if we want to draw more, bright, talented people into the field. If we want educators to be able to do what they do best, we have to give them the pay and the support that they need.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This comes as a new survey showed over 94 percent of political donations from teachers unions went to Democrat lawmakers.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/sen-tom-cotton-morgan-ortagus-deride-biden-policies\/\">Sen. Tom Cotton, Morgan Ortagus Deride Biden Policies<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE \u2013 In this March 13, 2020 file photo, then-Boston Mayor Marty Walsh talks about the postponement of the Boston Marathon during a news conference, in Boston. (AP Photo\/Michael Dwyer) OAN NewsroomUPDATED 8:16 AM PT \u2013 Thursday, September 1, 2022 The Biden administration announces a slew of new funding to help schools fill their empty &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":2315279,"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-1629579","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\/1629579","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\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1629579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1629579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1629579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1629579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}