Recruitment and Retention

State Partnerships

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The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC)'s state partnerships allow school leaders to directly improve teacher retention by investing in our most important resource – our educators – with a complete...

Know What You Need: A Special Educator's Guide to Locating and Asking for Classroom Curricular Resources Hensley, Kiersten & Huddle, Sally 1/1/2021 53 3 2021 High attrition rates among special education teachers is regularly credited to lack of adminis

High attrition rates among special education teachers is regularly credited to lack of administrative support, large caseloads, paperwork, lack of training, and overall job stress, but one key piece...
Journal Name:
TEACHING Exceptional Children
Publish date:
01/01/2021

CEC Endorses Senate Bill to Establish an Educator Job Fund

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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.
Publish Date: 
November 20, 2020

OSEP Hosts Attract, Prepare, Retain Summit

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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.
Publish Date: 
October 30, 2020

CEC Endorses the Save Education Jobs Act

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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.
Publish Date: 
October 30, 2020

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