Enough Teachers for TK?

Teachers are the most important component of the plan for Universal Transitional Kindergarten (UTK).

​"School districts across the state are scrambling to hire an estimated 11,000 teachers and 25,000 teacher assistants to expand transitional kindergarten. It’s a tall order for school district officials already in the midst of a daunting educator shortage and coming out of the pandemic. “If we can’t find staffing, we just flat can’t do it,” said Mike Martin, superintendent of the County Office of Education in Modoc County. “It’s not like we have a pool of folks lined up asking to come to work in our districts. We are competing with everybody else out there for these same folks.”"

https://calmatters.org/education/k-12-education/2022/03/california-teacher-shortage-pre-kindergarten/