WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:02:21.3040000" NOTE recognizability:0.859 NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.8951841 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.128 1st at 5:00. NOTE Confidence: 0.8951841 00:00:01.128 --> 00:00:03.760 A call for change in the classrooms. NOTE Confidence: 0.8951841 00:00:03.760 --> 00:00:05.248 The pandemic is driving NOTE Confidence: 0.8951841 00:00:05.248 --> 00:00:06.736 teachers out of schools, NOTE Confidence: 0.8951841 00:00:06.740 --> 00:00:08.565 but educators point out shortages NOTE Confidence: 0.8951841 00:00:08.565 --> 00:00:10.390 have been a consistent problem NOTE Confidence: 0.8951841 00:00:10.454 --> 00:00:11.938 since before the pandemic. NOTE Confidence: 0.8951841 00:00:11.940 --> 00:00:14.088 Now Governor Greg Abbott is launching NOTE Confidence: 0.8951841 00:00:14.088 --> 00:00:16.732 a task force to help find solutions NOTE Confidence: 0.8951841 00:00:16.732 --> 00:00:19.385 and for the first time more teachers NOTE Confidence: 0.8951841 00:00:19.454 --> 00:00:21.620 will be involved in the process. NOTE Confidence: 0.8951841 00:00:21.620 --> 00:00:23.600 KENS 5 reporter Victoria DeLeon NOTE Confidence: 0.8951841 00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:25.580 shares the perspectives of educators NOTE Confidence: 0.8951841 00:00:25.645 --> 00:00:27.565 who are hoping for real progress. NOTE Confidence: 0.8494007 00:00:29.320 --> 00:00:31.210 To solve the problem of NOTE Confidence: 0.8494007 00:00:31.210 --> 00:00:32.344 chronic teacher shortages, NOTE Confidence: 0.8494007 00:00:32.350 --> 00:00:34.342 the Texas Education Agency is getting NOTE Confidence: 0.8494007 00:00:34.342 --> 00:00:36.899 more input from the teachers themselves. NOTE Confidence: 0.8494007 00:00:36.900 --> 00:00:39.546 62 before the committee was made up, NOTE Confidence: 0.8494007 00:00:39.550 --> 00:00:40.690 mostly of superintendents, NOTE Confidence: 0.8494007 00:00:40.690 --> 00:00:42.210 there was a link. NOTE Confidence: 0.87013996 00:00:43.780 --> 00:00:45.616 That they put out that they NOTE Confidence: 0.87013996 00:00:45.616 --> 00:00:47.310 want to teach your input. NOTE Confidence: 0.87013996 00:00:47.310 --> 00:00:49.240 We gotta link. I went, what NOTE Confidence: 0.87013996 00:00:49.240 --> 00:00:51.242 Adonis Sherman is a middle school teacher NOTE Confidence: 0.87013996 00:00:51.242 --> 00:00:53.242 with Northeast ISD and president of NOTE Confidence: 0.87013996 00:00:53.242 --> 00:00:54.690 the Northeast Education Association. NOTE Confidence: 0.87013996 00:00:54.690 --> 00:00:56.965 Teachers need to be sitting on the NOTE Confidence: 0.87013996 00:00:56.965 --> 00:00:59.506 task force in a statement to KENS 5. NOTE Confidence: 0.87013996 00:00:59.510 --> 00:01:01.533 The TA would not clarify if more NOTE Confidence: 0.87013996 00:01:01.533 --> 00:01:03.040 teachers had been appointed, NOTE Confidence: 0.87013996 00:01:03.040 --> 00:01:04.966 just that they would be announced NOTE Confidence: 0.87013996 00:01:04.966 --> 00:01:06.250 at the next meeting. NOTE Confidence: 0.87013996 00:01:06.250 --> 00:01:09.428 What do you hope comes out of NOTE Confidence: 0.87013996 00:01:09.428 --> 00:01:11.978 this task force? Yeah, we hope NOTE Confidence: 0.84430695 00:01:11.980 --> 00:01:14.759 that this this task force isn't just NOTE Confidence: 0.84430695 00:01:14.759 --> 00:01:17.587 for show than they need to make NOTE Confidence: 0.84430695 00:01:17.587 --> 00:01:20.320 sure that that we have teachers from NOTE Confidence: 0.84430695 00:01:20.320 --> 00:01:21.508 different perspectives and NOTE Confidence: 0.84430695 00:01:21.508 --> 00:01:22.698 different backgrounds. These NOTE Confidence: 0.84430695 00:01:22.698 --> 00:01:24.688 longtime educators say they've been NOTE Confidence: 0.84430695 00:01:24.690 --> 00:01:26.670 asking for change for years. NOTE Confidence: 0.84430695 00:01:26.670 --> 00:01:30.640 We know that the pay is not good in Texas. NOTE Confidence: 0.84430695 00:01:30.640 --> 00:01:33.195 We know that health care needs to NOTE Confidence: 0.84430695 00:01:33.195 --> 00:01:35.799 be looked at for our educators. NOTE Confidence: 0.84430695 00:01:35.800 --> 00:01:37.388 Workload issues. Get rid NOTE Confidence: 0.84430695 00:01:37.390 --> 00:01:38.978 of the unnecessary bureaucratic NOTE Confidence: 0.84430695 00:01:38.978 --> 00:01:41.478 paperwork that are put on teachers. NOTE Confidence: 0.84430695 00:01:41.480 --> 00:01:43.178 You've listed out problems and solutions, NOTE Confidence: 0.84430695 00:01:43.180 --> 00:01:45.161 So what do you think is the NOTE Confidence: 0.84430695 00:01:45.161 --> 00:01:48.280 point of this task force? It's NOTE Confidence: 0.79917413 00:01:48.280 --> 00:01:49.279 election year Adonis NOTE Confidence: 0.79917413 00:01:49.280 --> 00:01:51.296 couldn't help but notice the same. NOTE Confidence: 0.79917413 00:01:51.300 --> 00:01:53.318 So we think that it's fantastic NOTE Confidence: 0.79917413 00:01:53.320 --> 00:01:55.000 that he's reaching out. Our NOTE Confidence: 0.79917413 00:01:55.000 --> 00:01:56.675 concerns though about it are NOTE Confidence: 0.79917413 00:01:56.675 --> 00:01:58.690 it's an election year, but she NOTE Confidence: 0.79917413 00:01:58.690 --> 00:02:01.040 still hopes for real progress. You really NOTE Confidence: 0.79917413 00:02:01.040 --> 00:02:04.064 wish she'd reached out to us about two years NOTE Confidence: 0.79917413 00:02:04.070 --> 00:02:05.078 ago. Victoria deleone. NOTE Confidence: 0.88422066 00:02:07.590 --> 00:02:09.370 The Task Force Committee will NOTE Confidence: 0.88422066 00:02:09.370 --> 00:02:11.504 meet every other month for the NOTE Confidence: 0.88422066 00:02:11.504 --> 00:02:13.506 rest of the year and after that, NOTE Confidence: 0.88422066 00:02:13.510 --> 00:02:15.275 a spokesperson with ETA says NOTE Confidence: 0.88422066 00:02:15.275 --> 00:02:17.040 they will provide findings and NOTE Confidence: 0.88422066 00:02:17.107 --> 00:02:19.202 recommendations to lawmakers in time NOTE Confidence: 0.88422066 00:02:19.202 --> 00:02:21.297 for the 88th legislative session.