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Texas teachers: New online survey conducted by Charles Butt Foundation shows increase in educators considering leaving profession!

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Houston, Texas — Results from a new online survey of K-12 teachers in Texas, released Thursday, show that most are “seriously considering” leaving the profession this year, a 19% increase from the past two years. The video above is from a previous report. In its third annual Teacher Satisfaction Survey, last spring the Charles Bate Foundation sent an online survey to 1,291 Texas public school teachers randomly selected from the state’s Texas Education Agency’s 2020 teacher list. All of them replied. The Charles Bate Foundation is a nonprofit organization named…

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Texas teacher shortage: University of Houston hosts school districts, educators’ union to retain workforce!

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Houston, Texas (KTRK) – Teachers, politicians and others met at the University of Houston on Tuesday to discuss ways to prevent Texan teachers from leaving the classroom. According to the American Federation of Teachers, 43,000 teachers left the field in Texas last year, and Tuesday’s goal was to find immediate ways to prevent that number from growing. “Our members want this crisis resolved,” Randy Weingarten, president of AFT, told a news conference after the closed-door meeting. The Houston Independent School District, which participated in the meetings, discussed its 11% increase…

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