26% of Teacher Positions Went Vacant to Start the School Year

The Arizona School Personnel Administrators Association published a new survey this week that found over 6,500 teacher openings that needed to be filled for this school year. One in four teaching positions remain vacant into the school year, and over half of those filling in the vacancies do not meet standard teacher requirements [1].

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Governor Ducey loves to tell you he solved the problem by raising teacher pay, yet we rank 48th in teacher salary [2], 48th in per pupil spending [3], and we have the worst pupil-to-teacher ratios in the country [4].

Right-wing politicians are determined to underfund public schools in Arizona. These policies only acerbate the teacher shortage crisis making it more difficult for our young people to be successful.

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[1] Arizona School Personnel Administrators Association. ASPAA survey results - ASPAA. Retrieved October 14, 2021, from https://www.aspaa.org/news/583314/ASPAA-2021-Survey-Results-.html
[2] U.S. Department of Education. Digest of Education Statistics, 2020. National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). Retrieved October 14, 2021, from https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d20/tables/dt20_211.60.asp.
[3] US Census Bureau. (2021, October 8). Public School spending per pupil increases by largest amount in 11 years. Census.gov. Retrieved October 14, 2021, from https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2021/public-school-spending-per-pupil.html.
[4] U.S. Department of Education. Digest of Education Statistics, 2020. National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Home Page. Retrieved October 14, 2021, from https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d20/tables/dt20_208.40.asp.