Portland Public Schools in Maine is considering moving to a four-day school week for special education students as the school district is unable to fill teaching positions.
to fill about 30 education technician positions, as well as teachers and therapists, to meet the capacity to handle the roughly 1,000 special education students, according to theIf the four-day plan is put in place, these students will need to make up the missed days at the end of the school year to meet Maine’s minimum 175-day school year.
“We are currently developing a plan to assess whether schools and programs have enough special education ed techs to operate safely, and if they do not, temporarily reassign other ed techs there to support,” the district said in a statement. “We will only move to four-day weeks if even the reassignment plan cannot cover enough vacancies in a given school or program, so we don’t yet know the potential scope or impact.”WMTW.
Teacher shortages are common across the country and were exacerbated by conditions during the coronavirus pandemic. Some states, like Arizona and Florida, have come up with innovative ways to address what many in the education world call a crisis.the requirement that teachers have a bachelor’s degree to begin teaching, allowing prospective teachers to start their training while earning their degrees.military veterans and their spouses to receive a five-year voucher to teach in classrooms without having a teaching degree.
Teachers’ unions are not happy with the moves from mostly Republican-run states to be inventive with the ways in which they address the teacher shortage.
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