Recruitment and Retention

On Wednesday, Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) introduced the Educator Job Fund Act, which would provide state and local school districts more than $260 billion to create a grant program focused on teacher pay, recruitment, and training.

This week, the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) within the U.S. Department of Education held a three-day summit focusing on the special educator pipeline.

CEC joined with 44 organizations to endorse the Save Education Jobs Act, which would protect roughly 4 million educator jobs amid what is expected to be major COVID-related funding cuts.

On October 27-29, the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) is hosting a virtual summit, “Attract, Prepare, Retain: OSEP National Summit on Improving Effective Personnel for Children with Disabilities.”

This month, the National Center for Education Statistics released a snapshot of race and ethnicity of public school teachers in the United States, using data from the 2017–18 National Teacher and Principal Survey.

PDK International released its 52nd annual September poll of public opinion toward public schools, entitled "Public School Priorities in a Political Year."