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ERIC Number: EJ1466112
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Apr
Pages: 36
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0013-161X
EISSN: EISSN-1552-3519
Available Date: 0000-00-00
School District Job Postings and Staffing Challenges throughout the Second School Year during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Dan Goldhaber1; Nate Brown2; Nathaniel Marcuson2; Roddy Theobald3
Educational Administration Quarterly, v61 n2 p323-358 2025
Purpose: In this paper we investigate school district staffing challenges during the 2021-22 school year, the second school year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Research Methods/Approach: We use novel data from Washington state collected by scraping websites for job postings during the 2021-22 school year; the districts represented in the study serve more than 98% of students in the state. We analyze these data using descriptive and regression analyses. Findings: There was considerable variation in staffing challenges across position types and throughout the year with postings per student tending to be higher in rural districts and districts serving larger populations of disadvantaged students. In Fall 2021, when postings likely signal vacancies at the outset of the 2021-22 school year, the data suggest that districts faced considerable challenges filling paraeducator and, to a lesser extent, teaching positions at the beginning of the school year. In the case of teachers, there is also heterogeneity in the postings per FTE across different teacher content areas. For instance, there are far more postings per FTE for special education teacher positions than elementary education positions. In Spring and Summer 2022, when postings likely signal anticipated staffing needs for the 2022--23 school year, districts with growing enrollments and that received more ESSER funding were more likely to have more postings.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools; Secondary Education; High Schools; Elementary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
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Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Location: Washington
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A
Author Affiliations: 1American Institutes for Research, University of Washington, Seattle, USA; 2University of Washington, Seattle, USA; 3American Institutes for Research, Seattle, USA