What is the projected need for teachers in Florida?
According to the Florida Department of Education projections, Over the next 19 years Florida will need to fill from 16,000 to 19,000 teacher vacancies a year. This totals nearly 85,000 vacancies over the next five years or 173,000 over the next ten years. That means that in less than ten years the number of vacancies to be filled will equal more than the size of the entire 2001-02 teacher workforce (see: http://www.firn.edu/doe/opri/pdf/projteach.pdf).
