News outlets declare teacher shortage in Georgia yet data shows rising numbers | Georgia

(The Center Square) — Georgia’s news outlets from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution to Atlanta News First have reported a couple of shortage of academics plaguing the state’s schooling gadget. Data from the state’s Department of Education paints a special image. 

Georgia had a complete of 123,210 academics in 2022-23, in step with their data. This is a rise of one,711 academics from the former college 12 months when Georgia had 121,499 academics. 

Enrollment for the present college 12 months as of March 2023 used to be 1,744,877 scholars, in step with data from the Georgia Department of Education. This marks an building up of 8,718 scholars from March 2022 when scholars enrolled reached 1,736,159 scholars. 

Georgia has observed a gradual building up in teacher numbers since 2019 when there used to be 118,357 academics in the gadget, in line with data from the Georgia Department of Education. Teacher numbers rose to 119,118 in 2020 with a slight bump to 119,640 in 2021. 

Enrollment, in the meantime, didn’t see as secure of an building up over this era. During the 2019 college 12 months, a complete of one,759, 838 scholars have been enrolled in Georgia colleges. By the next 12 months, in 2020, the quantity rose to one,760,739 scholars however declined by means of 37,612 scholars to a complete of one,723,127 in 2021. 

Georgia Department of Education and the Georgia Association of Educators didn’t reply in time for e-newsletter.