Florida abuses teachers and can’t figure out why there’s a teacher shortage
At the rate Florida is hemorrhaging classroom teachers, it soon won’t matter that we can’t hire school bus drivers for $11.88 an hour, because there won’t be any classrooms worth taking the kids to. Every week brings fresh reporting about Florida’s teacher shortage; none of it is a surprise to parents or policymakers who have been paying even the slightest bit of attention. The teaching talent pool began to shrink in the mid-20th century as women’s professional options expanded into…