We know from what our members have been saying for over a year that there are some significant recruitment and retention issues in Montana's Public Schools. Not all of our members are experiencing the same degree of difficulty, but all appear to agree that recruitment and retention of high quality educators is more difficult today than it was a few short years ago.
In looking at the results of a recent survey that we administered, the problems in recruitment and retention appear to be both quantitative (i.e., the number of available, interested, qualified applicants for openings) and qualitative (i.e., the overall quality of applicant pools seems to be on ...