At a small elementary school on Chicago’s Northwest Side, members of the local school council this summer kept hearing about a crisis-level national teacher shortage. Worried about their school, they cornered the principal, Folasade Adekunle, to see what may lie ahead.
“They are like, ‘Are we good’?” Adekunle recalled. “And I said, ‘By all accounts, everyone is coming back, and if we had a position I was mostly able to fill it.’ So I am both knocking on wood and patting myself on the back.”
