NC Voices: Rural Education
Retaining Teachers Is The Problem That Won't Go Away
Thursday, September 17 2009
by Dave DeWitt
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Warren County Courthouse, Warren County, NC (Photo: Dave DeWitt)
North Carolina’s rural schools are struggling. For decades, schools in small towns and isolated counties have tried to serve the poorest students with limited resources. In Halifax County, the state has been forced to intervene after Judge Howard Manning called the situation there “academic genocide.”
Neighboring Warren County hasn’t reached that extreme, but it still suffers from many of the same problems. At the top of the list is retaining qualified teachers.
In the second installment of our series, North Carolina Voices: Rural Education, Dave DeWitt reports that recruiting and keeping teachers in rural districts has become the problem that won’t go away.
This story is part of the North Carolina Voices series. Find out more.
