Coronavirus crisis exacerbated teacher shortage, school leaders say

The coronavirus crisis exacerbated the teacher shortage that has been plaguing the Netherlands for years, according to the general association for school leaders AVS. Fewer teachers are available due to quarantines and long waiting times to get their Covid-19 test results, and school leaders are having real trouble finding temps to replace them, the AVS found in a poll of 600 school leaders.Submitted by Janene Pieters on Tuesday, 1 September 2020 - 07:54 https://nltimes.nl/2020/09/01/coronavirus-crisis-exacerbated-teacher-shortage-school-leaders-say