15,000 teachers leave the classroom each year
About 15,000 Certificate ``A'' Teachers leave the classroom each year for further studies, thereby creating vacancies that are difficult to fill, Akwasi Asabere-Ameyaw, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba, has said.
Nearly 1,600 teachers could lose their jobs as Orange County's 28 school districts scramble to find ways to cut from their operating budgets amid a mounting state budget crisis.