Gwinnett schools are hoping to hire more than 250 teachers before the school year starts in August.
Gwinnett County Public Schools spokeswoman Sloan Roach said the district’s 264 vacancies are 37 fewer than it had this time last year. The district has a special-education teacher interview day scheduled June 29 to address one of the areas it lists as a critical need.
Metro Atlanta school districts are getting creative as they seek to fill nearly 2,000 teacher vacancies for the upcoming school year. Across the school districts, special education, arts as well as science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) are critical-need areas for teachers, as they have been in previous years.
Many are hopeful this will be the year where school begins without hundreds of open teaching slots across metro Atlanta, filled by substitutes who may not know the subject matter and, in some cases, are not certified.
Job fairs are on calendars of several of the districts. You can read about upcoming job fairs, what the average starting salaries for teachers are district by district and other information at myajc.com.
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