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Up the highway from Windsor, school boards in London have been hiring hundreds of teachers and support staff to keep up with classroom demands.
Across the river from Windsor, the Detroit Public Schools Community District claims it is currently 250 teachers short, while the American Federation of Teachers says each year 300,000 public school teachers are needed nationwide and that the shortage is growing.
In Canada, teacher shortages have been identified in Nova Scotia and British Columbia.
Internationally, the UK is in the middle of an acute teacher shortage and the United Nations Education, Science and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has issued statistics revealing that close to 69 million new teachers are needed to provide quality universal primary and secondary education by 2030.
The University of Windsor sits on the traditional territory of the Three Fires Confederacy of First Nations, which includes the Ojibwa, the Odawa, and the Potawatomi. We respect the longstanding relationships with First Nations people in this place in the 100-mile Windsor-Essex peninsula and the straits – les détroits – of Detroit.
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