Amid Teacher Shortage, School District To Host Job Fair In Princeton

PRINCETON, NJ — Princeton Public School is hosting a job fair on Friday to stem the educator shortage in the district. The school district is also looking to fill vacancies in other departments.

Short-term, temporary, and long-term teaching jobs are available in the district.

The district is encouraging parents, adult children, spouses, and community members to apply for jobs and substitute teaching positions.

The school district will interview candidates and expedite applications on Friday afternoon.

Retired teachers are encouraged to drop by for a chat on Friday.

Leave replacement positions in English Language Arts, Financial Literacy, and Special Education are currently available at the school district.

The job fair will be held Friday, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at Princeton Middle School, 217 Walnut Lane, Princeton.

PPS is currently grappling with an educational staff shortage much like school districts across the nation. More: Teacher Shortage Hits Princeton Schools, Recruiting Program In Place

Between Feb. 2020 and May 2022, roughly 300,000 educators left their jobs, according to August 2022 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, reported by the Wall Street Journal.

In January, Gov. Phil Murphy signed a new law allowing retired teachers to go back to the classroom, to fill the vacancies in various school districts.

New Jersey also rolled out a pilot program to allow people with workplace experience to seek teacher certification through the state’s alternate route program even if their standardized test scores or grade-point averages to not reach the minimum levels, an NJ.com report said. More: Teacher Shortage Squeezes NJ Schools; Pilot Program Aims To Draw More

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