With students due back in school as early as this week in some districts, Florida public schools are experiencing an unprecedented number of vacancies largely thanks to the state’s GOP Governor Ron DeSantis’s ongoing war against civility and education, Newsweek reports.
The Florida Education Association counts 5,294 vacant teacher positions listed on various districts’ websites around the state, and another 4,631 education and support staff openings around the state. Faced with state demands that teachers do not respect students’ rights and censor their subject matter to fit the political demands of DeSantis, teachers–and families–are fleeing Florida to make sure their children and students receive competent educations.