Teaching

Staff who work with special education students are sometimes injured by students. That can make it harder to fill staff vacancies, at a time when there's already a nationwide shortage.

A Pentagon program that helped thousands of veterans become classroom teachers is winding down. Advocates say the program should be saved.

The Texas State Board of Education is developing a process for vetting materials. Some advocacy groups are concerned the process will be politicized.

Are parents, teachers and the public feeling as divided as the headlines make it seem? A pair of new NPR/Ipsos polls reveals division, to be sure, but also surprising consensus.

Community colleges want a funding overhaul this legislative session, and four-year universities are hoping for a boost in research funds. Meanwhile, faculty are bracing for a potential threat to tenure and limits to conversations about race.

Teachers and administrators, already facing long hours and low pay, now find themselves under pressure from politicians, parents and even their own school districts.

It's possible more people will start applying for teacher positions again when the wider labor market calms down, but thousands of experienced teachers have already left the classroom. They won’t be easy to replace.

Several San Antonio school districts raised salaries this year in hopes that would stave off the teacher shortage. But the shortage was still felt more acutely this year than last year.

One of the reasons San Antonio is struggling to find enough teachers this school year is that many districts saw a spike in resignations at the end of last school year.

It’s been more than a decade since the Alamo Colleges paused its tenure program. Full-time faculty hired prior to 2011 have tenure, but faculty hired since then do not.