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Yale architecture students are working around the clock to finish a house on Howard Street in New Haven. “By talking to the teachers, we were really able to figure out how to create spaces that work for them on this site,” Yale architecture student Michael Brittenham said. This fall, two Friends Center for Children educators will move into the house…

An early childhood education provider in New Haven is offering free housing for teachers as a way to combat low salaries.

With just a week left in the legislative session, education leaders and parents are calling on state lawmakers to approve more funding to retain and recruit teachers.

On Tuesday, parents expressed their frustrations and concerns over a teacher shortage. “They need to give these teachers more support, more support financially, whatever it takes to get the job done,” parent Ian Laurencin said. Kristen Basiaga’s son attends A.I. Prince Technical High School in Hartford. During the school year, the family received several notifications that there weren’t enough...

The Connecticut Dept. of Education announced a new state initiative to strengthen the educator workforce by reimagining teacher evaluations and modernizing teacher certifications.

Lucas Garcia is an aspiring teacher. “I personally want to be a music educator. I wanted to be a teacher for so long, like ever since I was in seventh grade,” Future Educators participant Lucas Garcia said. Garcia is part of the Future Educators program in Connecticut that aims to help high school students get experience in the field before…

HBCUs play an outsize role in producing teachers of color in the U.S., where only 7% of teachers are Black, compared with 15% of students. Nearly half of all Black teachers nationwide are graduates of an HBCU.

Loren Carcamo arrived to Kleberg Elementary School ready to pick up her daughter when an unexpected surprise happened, her water broke.

A Tolland lawmakers says an amendment to a bill that became law last year mandating a 30-minute lunch break for teachers never went through the proper legislative process, and she wants it repealed.

Teachers are in danger of burning out – that is not a new problem in our state. In fact, it’s been an ongoing issue since even before the pandemic. A new survey shows just how dire the situation is becoming. NBC Connecticut’s Mike Hydeck spoke with Kate Dias, the president of the state’s largest teachers’ union, about it. Mike...

Everywhere, it seems, the return to school has been shadowed by worries of a teacher shortage.

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Hartford Public Schools is looking somewhere new to bolster its teaching staff: Puerto Rico. The school district has hired more than a dozen teachers from the island territory for the upcoming school year through a program called “Paso a Paso.” More Spanish phrases will be heard in classrooms this school year thanks to the teacher recruitment program. “Right now, being…

Summer’s almost over, and school will start soon, but some classrooms are still missing teachers. During the 2021-2022 school year, 48 states and Washington, DC, said they didn’t have enough special education teachers; 43 states and DC said they need more math teachers; and 41 states and DC had shortages of science teachers, according to the U.S. Department of Education....

Schools across the country are dealing with a teacher shortage, and Connecticut is no exception. Districts are doing what they can to bring in new staff in time for the start of the school year.

As a number of teachers leave the profession, what can schools, districts, and politicians do to address a national shortage and incentivize educators to stay? LX News Storyteller Jalyn Henderson talks to teachers and other experts to find out what’s actually behind the shortage and what can be done to fix it.