By 2009, an elementary teaching opening drew 91 applicants. Nationwide, the teacher shortage has been widely reported.Īssistant Superintendent Sara Dail provided data that showed the decline in applications.Ī posting for four elementary school openings in 2004 once yielded more than 1,100 applicants. The number of new teachers seeking certification in Illinois is in sharp decline each summer, there are more openings than candidates. “We’re in dire straits, so we need to look at things differently,” Superintendent Tad Everett said. The hope is SPS University could alleviate the district’s reliance on an ever-dwindling pool of qualified teachers. 25, 2023, at the Sterling High School library. Narcisco Puentes, a member of the Sterling Public Schools board of education, listens to a presentation on SPS University on Wednesday, Jan. Ideally, recent Sterling High School graduates or existing staffers who might have two-year degrees are the primary targets of this initiative. STERLING – Sterling Public Schools previewed an initiative to develop homegrown talent for teaching openings during its board of education meeting Wednesday that its superintendent called “a game-changer.”Ĭalled SPS University, it would offer assistance and encouragement to those people with connections to the school district so they might have incentives to pursue careers as teachers, then put those degrees to work in Sterling classrooms.
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