Employment Outlook For Georgia Educators After Layoffs
It’s a solution many school districts across the nation may turn to…implementing staff reductions in order to help reduce a budget deficit.
Recently Cobb County announced that more than 300 teachers could be laid off and a new redistricting plan could put some Atlanta teachers out of work.
WABE’s Rose Scott reports on how these educators could find new jobs.
Dr. Cindy Stephens says her department is being proactive in trying to help Georgia educators find jobs.
“We’re going out, we’re identifying these folks whether they’re veteran teachers whether they are new teacher, we’re bringing them in to targeted job fairs and information sessions and we’re doing a lot of electronic work” says Stephens.
Dr. Stephens is the director of educator workforce recruitment within the Georgia Professional Standards Commission.
Many educators are linked to the organization’s TeachGeorgia system. It’s sort of a one-stop-shop employment hub for educators.
While there is an expectation some educators will retire and others leave the field, Stephens says there’s a shortage of teachers in specific regions of Georgia.
“Generally our more rural and our more urban areas of the state tend to have a harder time recruiting and keeping teachers once recruited.”
Dr. Stephens says there’s also a strong need for teachers in science, technology, engineering and math.
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