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Shereen Oca Beilstein; Tom Withee; Meg Bates – Illinois Workforce and Education Research Collaborative, Discovery Partners Institute, 2025
The prevalence of educator shortages has long been a topic of research and policy discussions in Illinois. Across multiple years, the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) and Illinois Association of Regional Superintendents of Schools (IARSS) have collected data and reported on the magnitude, severity, and impact of shortages statewide. Prior…
Descriptors: Teacher Shortage, Early Childhood Education, Early Childhood Teachers, Teacher Recruitment
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Region 15 Comprehensive Center, 2022
To develop and support an effective, diverse educator workforce, education leaders in California are encouraged to coordinate, or braid, state funds, federal funds, and specialized grants. By braiding funds, education leaders can adapt to the ebb and flow of annual budgets to better meet local needs that can improve outcomes for students. This…
Descriptors: Diversity (Faculty), State Aid, Federal Aid, Educational Finance
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Cunningham, Denise D.; Mowrey, Sascha; Baker, Sarah Jean – Critical Questions in Education, 2023
Elementary principals are increasingly responsible for the supervision, support, and evaluation of early childhood teachers and young children. Previous research demonstrated that principals may prefer to hire elementary-certified rather than early childhood-certified teachers and that principals without early childhood preparation may not…
Descriptors: Principals, Elementary Education, Early Childhood Education, Administrator Attitudes
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Lieberman, Abbie – Learning Professional, 2021
Across public and private settings, about 250 preschoolers are suspended or expelled each day, according to a Center for American Progress analysis of the 2016 National Survey of Children's Health (Malik, 2017). The U.S. Department of Education's Civil Rights Data Collection has exposed serious inequities in exclusionary discipline practices.…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Student Behavior, Discipline
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Bruder, Mary Beth; Gundler, Darla; Stayton, Vicki; Kemp, Peggy – Infants and Young Children, 2021
There are concerns about the quantity and quality of personnel in early childhood intervention (ECI) as the numbers of infants and young children with delays and disabilities grow in number, needs, and diversity. The Early Childhood Personnel Center (ECPC) was funded to provide technical assistance (TA) to state systems of ECI and institutions of…
Descriptors: Infants, Toddlers, Young Children, Preschool Education
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Pettit, Teri – National Center for Special Education in Charter Schools, 2016
The Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEIA) requires all states to establish procedures to ensure that, "to the maximum extent appropriate," students with disabilities are educated with students who are non-disabled in the Least Restrictive Environment (LRE) possible. Developing a full continuum of services for…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Students with Disabilities, Special Education, Charter Schools
Minnesota Department of Education, 2017
Every two years, the Educator Licensing Division of the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) is tasked with producing a report on the supply and demand of teachers. By statute, that report must contain data collected by surveying Minnesota public school districts, charter schools, and teacher preparation institutions (Minnesota Statute 127A.05,…
Descriptors: Teacher Supply and Demand, Elementary Secondary Education, Public Schools, Teacher Retirement