The teaching profession is in crisis. Florida is approaching the 2024-2025 school year with 4,000 teaching vacancies, and Vermont sends whole grades of students home when no teacher or substitute is available. In a piece for The Conversation, education policy expert Lesley Lavery and writer Steve Friess explain how post-pandemic woes, lack of personal safety, and an unrelenting workload continue to weaken teacher morale to an all-time low and what that means for the future of K-12 education in the United States.
