Maryland’s teacher shortage: Will the Blueprint’s plan for better pay, training do enough?
By AIDAN HUGHES and DARANEE BALACHANDAR Capital News Service Fifth-grade teacher Melissa Carpenter works a 10-hour day on average during
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Maryland Educators Eye Better Pay Following Baltimore County Deal
Teachers, their unions and school systems across the state are taking note of the deal to give Baltimore County gives teachers a raise as they consider their own local education systems.
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Maryland Teachers Quitting, Larger Exodus Could Follow
Scores of Maryland public school teachers are saying the same thing, and their departures are creating shortages throughout the state’s education system.
In the last academic school year, 9.1% of Maryland teachers left the profession altogether, according to the state department of education. Consequently, at the beginning of this year, county school systems across the state reported hundreds of teacher vacancies they needed to fill.
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