As schools try to fill the vacancies, lawmakers in Columbus are considering ideas to fill the shortage, from allowing military veterans without college degrees to enter the profession to increasing minimum teacher pay.
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio schools are struggling to retain teachers, a state report shows, and the growing rate of teacher attrition could signal an even bigger problem for future classrooms as the state’s pipeline of prospective educators is lagging.shows teacher attrition – those not returning to their jobs in the classroom – is up in schools across the state.
Hershman-Rossi has occasionally entertained the idea of becoming a stay-at-home dad— he said his kids are young and his wife has a good job — though he thinks he will stay in his job. He doesn’t, however, begrudge teachers who want to leave. The report also found increased attrition in Northeast Ohio – an 18-county geographical area studied by the Department of Education that spans from Erie to Columbiana counties with 379 school districts, plus charter schools and science, technology, engineering and math schools.
The Ohio Federation of Teachers surveyed 2,300 K-12 teachers and school support workers from March 16 to May 12. It found that 72.3% of respondents recently have seriously considered leaving their jobs and 54.4% have considered leaving K-12 education altogether, with the remainder considering changing school districts or job positions.
Marchell Josie, a special education middle school teacher in the East Cleveland City School District, normally teaches seventh-grade English. After the school lost a special education teacher, she added some sixth-grade classes. In that same time, Ohio’s student population decreased by 90,000, from nearly 1.8 million students in 2012 to almost 1.7 million in 2022. The student-to-teacher ratio is actually lower now than it was in 2012, dropping from 15.6 to 15.1.
Regardless of class size, teachers returning to the classroom after the pandemic have work piled up. Many students spent part of two years at home. They’re not just academically behind, but socially. They don’t know how to act in class, said Josie, the East Cleveland special ed teacher.“I got frustrated at some point, I really did,” she said. “It was real hard to get back into the swing of teaching. When you talk about students having self-control.
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