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Council member Brooks-Powers highlights staffing shortages in schools
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Council member Brooks-Powers elaborates on the staffing shortages affecting schools in her district, emphasizing the difficulties in recruiting and retaining staff despite local efforts. She requests information on how the Department of Education is addressing these challenges through the budget.
- Highlights the lack of interest from potential staff to work in certain areas of the city
- Mentions community efforts to recruit staff, including creating flyers and holding hiring sessions
- Requests information on how the DOE budget can be leveraged to assist with staffing issues
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
1:07:04
That would be great.
1:07:05
And then in terms of the staffing, and I will say even though I'm speaking on on my district, I'm sure some of my colleagues experience the same especially when you're further out in the city.
1:07:17
There is a lack of, I guess, interest in some cases to be able to secure certain staff for our students, unfortunately.
1:07:27
And they've done my educators and my community are dynamic, like they've done everything.
1:07:32
We've made flyers together.
1:07:33
We've put them out.
1:07:34
They've done, hiring sessions.
1:07:36
We've done it all, but it is very difficult.
1:07:39
And so, I'm not sure what how the budget can be leveraged to assist with that, but that is that is something I'd like to hear from the department on how you are addressing that.
Simone Hawkins
1:07:52
And we're talking about early childhood education teachers or?
Selvena N. Brooks-Powers
1:07:56
This is not limited to only Okay.
1:07:59
Yeah.