pandemic Archives - Flux https://flux.community/tag/pandemic/ A platform for change Fri, 09 Sep 2022 05:28:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Politics and pandemic are driving Texas teachers to consider quitting, survey finds https://flux.community/brian-lopez/2022/09/politics-and-pandemic-are-driving-texas-teachers-to-consider-quitting-survey-finds/ Fri, 09 Sep 2022 13:00:52 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=12261 Results from a new online survey of K-12 teachers in Texas, released on Thursday, shows most “seriously considered” leaving the profession this year, a 19% increase from two years ago. For its third annual survey on teacher satisfaction, the Charles Butt Foundation last spring sent an online questionnaire to 1,291 Texas public school teachers who […]

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]]> It’s not just COVID-19: Why Texas faces a teacher shortage https://flux.community/brian-lopez/2022/07/its-not-just-covid-19-why-texas-faces-a-teacher-shortage/ Wed, 27 Jul 2022 13:00:56 +0000 https://flux.community/?p=11863 Over the last two years, Texas’ public education system has been through the wringer, from shifting to online classes and debates about making masks mandatory to the ongoing tensions over how race and sex should be taught in schools to, most recently, the renewed discussion over school safety in the aftermath of the mass shooting in Uvalde where 19 elementary school students and […]

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