Thread by @DataInsightPart

We’re so excited about the start of school and teachers reuniting with students.

BUT…

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🚨🚨🚨 Sound the Alarm 🚨🚨🚨

It’s time to talk about the elephant in the room.

CCSD executive leadership is failing our children.

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As of the first day of school CCSD had 819 teacher/licensed staff vacancies.

More vacancies at the start of the year than the 2017 & 2018 school years COMBINED!

ccsd.taleo.net/careersection/…

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Here’s the million-dollar question:

WHY are there so many teacher vacancies???

- Is it pay?
- Is it the pandemic?
- Is it a failure of leadership?

Let’s look at the evidence!

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Every Board meeting CCSD posts all the announced separations of Licensed staff (teachers, counselors, etc; NOT including admin or support staff)

We’ve processed those docs for the last decade & analyzed them along w/ student enrollment

What we found will shock you!

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This week’s meeting has more teachers/licensed staff leaving CCSD than any August meeting in the last decade!

More teachers leaving because they accepted a job in another NV district than ever before!

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The chart below shows the average teacher/licensed staff separations from 2012 through 2018.

On average, 1,634 licensed staff left per year, with announcements accelerating in the final quarter of the year.

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In 2019-2020, BEFORE the pandemic, teachers were leaving at the fastest pace ever!

This just AFTER the 2019 legislative session when money was allocated for teacher raises.

But we were told teachers were leaving because of money???

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We just saw teachers were leaving at the fastest pace ever after more $s allocated for teacher pay.

Principal Hinchliffe hit the nail on the head.

Teachers are NOT leaving solely because of money!!!

AND teachers were leaving BEFORE the pandemic.

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Once Nevada closed due to COVID in March 2020 teacher/licensed staff separations pulled back from their record pace and got closer to a typical year.

So, what happened the following year while COVID continued to put a strain on the US economy???

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During the pandemic, in the 2021 school year, teacher separations were at a record low for the last decade.

The pandemic wasn’t causing teachers to leave; it was delaying them from leaving.

But then the vaccine came out…

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Once the vaccine was out, teacher separations from CCSD started to accelerate again.

COVID didn’t cause a mass exodus of teachers; it delayed it.

But what do teacher separations look like as a ratio of students enrolled?

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Teacher separations are accelerating under Jara despite the slowdown from the pandemic

Last year more teachers/licensed staff left because they were “Dissatisfied w/ the District” than ever before!

While:
- Las Vegas population is GROWING
- Teacher supply is shrinking

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CCSD also reports out the number of staff they have by employee group every month.

This means we can see how many teachers/licensed staff are employed throughout the year, every year.

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CCSD has reported the number of teachers employed each month for the last 83 months, and the most recent month is the LOWEST ON RECORD!

1,932 less licensed staff than the peak reported in August of 2017.

So, what are the consequences of this...

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This leads to:

- Larger class sizes
- Less access to qualified teachers
- More work for over-stressed teachers
- Less support for school staff

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Who could have seen this coming… Everybody!

Former CCSD Chief of HR penned a letter to the RJ pointing out that CCSD Leadership is to blame for not reducing vacancies

This was BEFORE the pandemic

18 months later & CCSD now has 824 licensed staff vacancies!

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Remember the Teacher Recruitment & Retention Committee CCSD put together in May 2020?

Try finding the report on CCSD’s website
Try finding the progress that's been made
Try finding out how you can help

Try finding anything from CCSD about the BIGGEST crisis facing our kids

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This is not an attack on NV education
This is not an attack on schools
This is not an attack on teachers

This:
- Supports NV education
- Supports schools
- Supports our teachers

CCSD executive leadership is not doing enough to recruit, develop, & retain great teachers

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This is a call to action to the most urgent problem facing our kids:

- Remove ALL unnecessary work off schools’ plates
- Staffing on Board Agenda until every classroom filled
- Report Application pipeline #s
- Report Stayer, mover, leaver rates

Do better for our kids NOW

Stay tuned for our investigation in the coming week into the embarrassing fiasco that is CCSD principal retention.