The School District of Philadelphia is dealing with hundreds of open teaching spots that still need to be filled and the start of the school year is a week away.
What does it take to become a teacher and why aren’t more young people entering the profession?
"We have about 9,000 teachers across the district and, right now, we’re at 95.1 percent capacity and last year, we were at 98 percent capacity," Jerry Jordan, President of Philadelphia Federation of Teachers, stated.Quentelle Fambrl is a mother with five students in the district. She says many underestimate how intense teaching can be.
"In Philadelphia, we’re competing now with the suburban districts who are offering jobs to our teachers currently in the system," Jordan explained.
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