“Classroom spending cuts, uncertain school financing, low pay and eroding tenure protections all play into a hostile climate in Kansas that teachers and school administrators say is spurring a surge of teacher departures and retirements.
“At least 3,720 Kansas teachers have left the state, retired or taken jobs outside of education after this past school year, a huge jump from the 2,150 who did so just a couple of years ago, according to a newly released data by Kansas State Department of Education.
“Parent Judith Deedy, who has two 11-year-olds and one 13-year-old in the Shawnee Mission school district, said teachers in Kansas feel threatened by not only by the low pay but the Legislature.
“’Why do they think this is going to help us get bright people to go into teaching,’ Deedy said. ‘And my kids are still relatively young, we have a ways to go. So I think that it’s frightening.’”
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