Here’s what NYC’s teacher workforce looks like as a new school year begins

New York City hasn’t seen the kinds of severe post-pandemic teacher shortages plaguing other parts of the country.

But the teaching force in the nation’s largest school system hasn’t emerged from the pandemic unscathed.

Last year, New York City public schools saw a higher rate of teacher attrition than any time in the last decade, and the pool of educators shrunk by roughly 2,000, mirroring the yearslong decline in student enrollment, according to Education Department data.

Hiring for certain hard-to-fill positions also remains a big challenge, with bilingual educators and high school special education teachers near the top of the list of shortage areas.

Efforts to diversify the disproportionately white teaching force continue making slow progress, with recent classes of new teachers that are far more representative of the city’s student body than the teaching force as a whole, which was 55% white in 2022, according to city data. The student body is just 16% white.

Learn more here: https://ny.chalkbeat.org/2023/9/6/23862194/nyc-teacher-workforce-shortages?utm_source=Chalkbeat&utm_campaign=1e4b9300f1-New+York+What+NYCs+teacher+workforce+looks+like+as&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_9091015053-1e4b9300f1-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

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