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By: Danielle Smith
The shortage of educators and school staffers has reached a crisis level in some Pennsylvania public schools.
The state will need to fill thousands of vacancies for teachers, principals and administrative staff by August of 2025 – according to a report from the Pennsylvania Department of Education.
Billy Hileman, president of the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers, said there’s been a decline in enrollment for teacher education programs at universities in the past decade.
But one exception can be found at Pittsburgh’s Brashear High School. Hileman said it aims to inspire and prepare students interested in pursuing teaching careers.
“There are students in the Pittsburgh Public Schools who do the Teacher Academy who do become teachers, who otherwise might not have,” said Hileman, “partly because of the really wonderful teachers who have been part of that effort. Expanding that in more public schools across our state, can make a difference.”
Pennsylvania serves more than 1.7 million students in grades K-12.
This year, the Shapiro Administration unveiled a $379,000 grant to create an apprenticeship program to produce more certified teachers for Pennsylvania schools.
Susan Kemper Patrick, senior researcher with the Learning Policy Institute, said having a diverse group of teachers is crucial – particularly for students of color.
However, she noted that the teaching workforce in the U.S. has remained predominantly white over the past three decades.
At a recent national forum on the teacher shortage, she said figures from the 2020-to-2021 school year show only 20% of public school teachers in the nation were Black.
“Higher salaries are associated with lower teacher turnover,” said Kemper Patrick. “And a recent national study of teachers of color across the country found that among those surveyed, increasing salary was the top strategy to recruit and retain more teachers of color.”
Kemper Patrick said some states have managed to get substantial pay increases for teachers in the past five years, but it remains low overall.
She said as of 2021, the average starting salary for a teacher with a bachelor’s degree was over $42,000 a year.
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By: Danielle Smith
A proposed pumped-storage hydroelectric facility for Cuffs Run near the Susquehanna River in York County has been challenged by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.
The foundation filed a motion to intervene in the proceedings with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which is considering granting a preliminary permit to build a 1.8-mile-long dam for the project.
Harry Campbell, science policy and advocacy director for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, said they are working to stop the project in order to protect the unique Cuffs Run area and its ecological benefits for future generations.
“If approved, this project would destroy it about 580 acres of prime farmland, fields and forests, some of which have not been disturbed in about 100 years,” Campbell pointed out. “Those farms, fields and forests exist harmoniously with and in support of a plethora of plant and animal life.”
The foundation is circulating an online petition and encouraged Pennsylvanians to provide comments before Sunday.
The stream is home to naturally reproducing brook trout. Advocates worry the $2.5 billion project would also be harmful to the Susquehanna River. Campbell noted about 40 families would be displaced.
“For those who call Cuffs Run home, it’s more than just a place to live. It’s their heritage and they want it to be part of their legacy,” Campbell asserted. “This project just simply is the wrong idea in the wrong place. In order to honor that heritage and that legacy, we need to preserve this area.”
Campbell emphasized the Cuffs Run project is about 993 acres of land draining into a 2.5-mile unnamed tributary. He added in terms of stream habitat, the rocks, pebbles and woody material have been identified as among the best in the region for supporting critters living in the water.
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