{"id":209960,"date":"2022-02-07T16:50:10","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T16:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/teachers-are-quitting-and-companies-are-desperate-to-hire-them"},"modified":"2022-02-07T16:50:10","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T16:50:10","slug":"teachers-are-quitting-and-companies-are-desperate-to-hire-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/teachers-are-quitting-and-companies-are-desperate-to-hire-them","title":{"rendered":"Teachers are quitting, and companies are desperate to hire them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Education may be one of the most critical things in the lives of the nation&#8217;s children, but finding adults to deliver that education has become increasingly tricky as other industries are looking to hire your former art teacher, calculus teacher, STEM instructor &#8230; and the rest of them. What started as a mass departure in 2020 for teachers when COVID-19 sent students across the world to their kitchen tables and couches for class has continued to snowball throughout the last year. Federal data shows just how bad the issue is for classrooms, with approximately 550,000 private-education teachers walking off the job from January to November 2021, the Wall Street Journal reported. More than 800,000 resignations were handed in from workers in state and local education during that same time. People quitting in educational services shot up 148% during the 11 month period, and those leaving in state and local education rose 40%, the data showed. While there have been reports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education may be one of the most critical things in the lives of the nation&#8217;s children, but finding adults to deliver that education has become increasingly tricky as other industries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123,1],"tags":[27,96,35],"class_list":["post-209960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-jobs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}