Why do mid-year teacher vacancies exist and in what subject areas?
School districts report that mid-year vacancies exist because teachers are promoted or reassigned, become ill, go on maternity or family leave, or retire or resign. In addition, students can be classified as disabled or as having limited English proficiency at any time during the school year and this may create the need for additional teachers. Schools do not always have the ability to reassign existing staff to fill a vacancy immediately. Information provided by the NYCDOE suggests that special education, bilingual special education, mathematics and science are the subject areas that experience the largest number of mid-year vacancies. When vacancies occur mid-year in these subject areas it is extremely difficult to find qualified candidates. The NYCDOE has recently announced a new initiative to centralize the process for hiring substitute teachers, a distinct but related issue. What are schools doing about these teacher vacancies? When principals declare vacancies, both the regional
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