Bc Teacher Shortage

• ‘Slipping through the cracks’: Teacher shortage mars first weeks in some B.C. schools

  Ken Christensen, president of the Coquitlam Teachers' Association, said the Coquitlam School District had about 650 more new students than projected this year.

  Education

  Sep 25, 2023
  
• ‘Getting worse’: Unions worried over possible B.C. teacher shortage ahead of school year

  Education Minister Rachna Singh said she's aware the sector has been hit by a labour shortage, and that her staff are working to secure 'resources on the ground' next week.

  Education

  Aug 30, 2023
  
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• Teacher shortage leads Abbotsford French immersion school to use instructor who can’t speak the language

  Students in a Grade 4 class at École Sandy Hill Elementary in Abbotsford have been without a French immersion teacher for the past three weeks. Parents are not sure when they will get a replacement.

  Oct 30, 2018
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• Education Ministry creates task force to help keep B.C. classrooms fully staffed

  B.C.'s education minister said the task force will deal with pressing issues as they come up, but will have a list of final recommendations by the end of the year.

  Oct 24, 2017
• Administrators called into classrooms amid B.C. teacher shortage

  "I've been in classrooms lots, but not as the teacher."

  Education

  Oct 3, 2017
• BCTF says province’s classrooms short 1,000 teachers

  The province is still 300 full time and 700 on-call teachers, according to the union.

  Oct 3, 2017