The D.C.-area resignations come amid a wider national trend of teachers leaving the profession in the years since the pandemic began.
resignation notices, but the school system encourages teachers to file resignations with enough time to hire for the upcoming school year.In Northern Virginia, teacher resignation trends varied by system. Those in Fairfax, Arlington and Alexandria saw increases in resignations, while the Loudoun school system saw little change in resignation totals., per state data — making it the largest district in the state — saw 896 teacher resignations in 2022.
, according to state data, saw 284 teachers resign between August 2021 and mid-May 2022. The district usually employs about 3,000 teachers, per spokesman Frank Bellavia.That is 96 percent higher than the average number of resignations between 2018-2019 and 2020-2021: 145. The number of people quitting their jobs this year accounts for 9.5 percent of Arlington’s teacher workforce.
“We recognize that many school divisions throughout the nation will be managing some degree of teacher shortages this coming fall,” Kay-Wyatt said when asked about possible concerns for staffing this fall. Doug Burns, an Arlington Public Schools high school teacher, said many of his colleagues found the most recent school year unusually difficult.
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