Teachers flee Michigan to find jobs (option #1: get a suitcase)

Check the link. This is a story about teaching jobs across the nation. See the map at the end of the story

http://www.detnews.com/2005/schools/0505/22/A01-189220.htm

Teachers flee Michigan to find jobs

School openings are sparse here, so new graduates are forced to head south, west.

By Joe Menard / The Detroit News


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The graduates are entering the job market at a time when districts are laying off thousands of teachers with little hope of bringing them all back. Detroit plans to lay off 1,900 teachers this year, and suburban districts such as Royal Oak, Oak Park and Garden City are laying off about 10 percent or more of their teaching staffs. That leaves fresh-faced college grads competing with seasoned teachers for jobs.

"There's a lot of pink slips going out. There will certainly be fewer teachers in the schools this fall," said Margaret Trimer-Hartley, spokeswoman for the Michigan Education Association, the state's largest teachers union. "There will be little room for new hires."

She said Michigan historically has a large corps of veteran teachers, who have 25 or 30 years of experience, and that their retirements create some openings for new teachers. Recruiters from other states are coming to Michigan to skim off the surplus teaching talent. The state's largest teacher recruiting fair held annually at Eastern Michigan University has seen a decline in participating Michigan districts and a spike in out-of-state recruitment since the recession hit, said Barbara J. Jones, corporate relations manager for the university. The joint fair is a collaborate effort by Eastern, the University of Michigan, Western Michigan, Central Michigan and Michigan State universities.

Out-of-state recruiters were major players at the fair, with 13 districts from Florida, 11 from North Carolina and nine from California trying to lure teachers to their states. Recruiters from Virginia, Texas, Arizona, Georgia and several other states also attended.

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more...

:shrug:

The Midwest is a disaster for teachers right now.

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"Officials at state universities point to recent teacher job fairs as grim evidence that Michigan's public schools are struggling. At a teacher recruiting fair held at Oakland University this month, 17 private and charter schools attended, compared to 12 public school districts. "


And more from the article....

"The number of charter schools in Michigan has grown from 12 in 1994 to 216 this year, and the number of students attending those schools has gone from 1,200 to 82,000 in the same period. Another more than 10,000 students are on waiting lists to get into the schools, he said."

then this.....

"But charters, which aren't unionized, pay less and offer fewer benefits than their public school counterparts."

If it looks like a duck.....

going to schools where they'll be taught by those NEA terrorists

:-(

but dang, if it looks like a duck....

How do the qualifications for charter school teachers compare with public school teachers in Michigan? Here in Arizona, charter school teachers don't need to be certified.

I am embarrassed to say I do not know about the qualifications to teach at charter schools either here in New Hampshire or in Michigan.

What surprised me as I read the article was the two tier teacher system and the number of students enrolled.

I will have to look at this issue more because it appears there is a lot I do not know.

Edited to add link.

http://www.ecs.org/clearinghouse/24/15/2415.htm

All states are listed...

Some states do not even require charter school teachers to be certified. Others require charter school teachers to be fully certified just as in public schools.