Education Funding
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Teachers are leaving American classrooms due to a combination of factors including student behavior, inadequate pay, and poor work-life balance, with many warning about these conditions.
Mid-year teacher resignations due to harassment, bullying, and lack of administrative support are occurring in 2026.
As of early 2026, a significant portion of elementary school students in the U.S. were struggling with reading, a trend described as a "reading recession" that predated the pandemic and affected students across various school types.
As of the 2024-2025 school year, a significant majority of middle and high school teachers surveyed reported assigning at least one full book per academic year, with an average of four books assigned per secondary school teacher.
In many school systems, there is a trend towards teaching excerpts from books rather than entire books.
While teacher salaries vary drastically by state and district, a salary of $47,000 for a teacher with a master's degree and 8 years of experience is a plausible figure in various U.S. school districts.