WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:02:03.7490000" NOTE recognizability:0.837 NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.80732816 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.590 It's all comes as the state NOTE Confidence: 0.80732816 00:00:01.590 --> 00:00:03.494 tries to deal with an increase NOTE Confidence: 0.80732816 00:00:03.494 --> 00:00:05.066 in teacher vacancies locally. NOTE Confidence: 0.80732816 00:00:05.070 --> 00:00:06.780 Austin ISD saw more resignations NOTE Confidence: 0.80732816 00:00:06.780 --> 00:00:08.490 this school year than they've NOTE Confidence: 0.80732816 00:00:08.552 --> 00:00:10.100 had in the past three years. NOTE Confidence: 0.80732816 00:00:10.100 --> 00:00:11.715 Cavus Marie Aguilera looks into NOTE Confidence: 0.80732816 00:00:11.715 --> 00:00:13.330 why teachers are leaving and NOTE Confidence: 0.80732816 00:00:13.393 --> 00:00:15.115 what the district is doing about NOTE Confidence: 0.846345643076923 00:00:15.120 --> 00:00:17.120 it. It's never been anywhere NOTE Confidence: 0.846345643076923 00:00:17.120 --> 00:00:18.720 near this many resignations NOTE Confidence: 0.846345643076923 00:00:18.720 --> 00:00:20.699 like we'll have retirements. NOTE Confidence: 0.846345643076923 00:00:20.700 --> 00:00:23.269 But people don't just quit my campus, NOTE Confidence: 0.846345643076923 00:00:23.270 --> 00:00:24.371 but it's happening. NOTE Confidence: 0.846345643076923 00:00:24.371 --> 00:00:25.839 It's happening a lot. NOTE Confidence: 0.846345643076923 00:00:25.840 --> 00:00:26.938 Alyssa Potasnik has NOTE Confidence: 0.8495971 00:00:26.940 --> 00:00:28.775 been a special education teacher NOTE Confidence: 0.8495971 00:00:28.775 --> 00:00:31.296 for 12 years. She now joins about NOTE Confidence: 0.8495971 00:00:31.296 --> 00:00:33.420 2000 a ISD staffers who resigned NOTE Confidence: 0.8495971 00:00:33.492 --> 00:00:35.748 this school year. I don't want NOTE Confidence: 0.8495971 00:00:35.750 --> 00:00:37.780 to teach her anymore. I don't want NOTE Confidence: 0.8495971 00:00:37.780 --> 00:00:40.538 to be in this state anymore because NOTE Confidence: 0.8495971 00:00:40.538 --> 00:00:42.720 it doesn't value education. Potasnik NOTE Confidence: 0.8495971 00:00:42.720 --> 00:00:44.715 says she recognizes the district NOTE Confidence: 0.8495971 00:00:44.715 --> 00:00:47.369 in some ways is trying to help. NOTE Confidence: 0.8495971 00:00:47.370 --> 00:00:48.960 But the staffing shortages are NOTE Confidence: 0.8495971 00:00:48.960 --> 00:00:50.550 weighing heavy on those who NOTE Confidence: 0.895805672727273 00:00:50.550 --> 00:00:52.565 stick around when. People leave NOTE Confidence: 0.895805672727273 00:00:52.565 --> 00:00:54.840 the workload increases on those who NOTE Confidence: 0.9078393 00:00:54.840 --> 00:00:56.700 remain because you can't find NOTE Confidence: 0.9078393 00:00:56.700 --> 00:00:58.560 people to fill those positions. NOTE Confidence: 0.9078393 00:00:58.560 --> 00:01:01.420 And then the people remaining leave. Austin NOTE Confidence: 0.82558525 00:01:01.420 --> 00:01:03.455 ISD staff resignations have spiked NOTE Confidence: 0.82558525 00:01:03.455 --> 00:01:05.900 in the twenty 2122 school year. NOTE Confidence: 0.82558525 00:01:05.900 --> 00:01:07.940 A ISD saw about 2100 NOTE Confidence: 0.82558525 00:01:07.940 --> 00:01:09.572 resignations the previous year. NOTE Confidence: 0.82558525 00:01:09.580 --> 00:01:11.040 About 1600 Jason Stanford, NOTE Confidence: 0.82558525 00:01:11.040 --> 00:01:12.865 with the district says even NOTE Confidence: 0.82558525 00:01:12.865 --> 00:01:14.470 with these resignations, NOTE Confidence: 0.82558525 00:01:14.470 --> 00:01:16.768 they're in better shape compared to NOTE Confidence: 0.82558525 00:01:16.768 --> 00:01:19.370 the region and the state average. NOTE Confidence: 0.82558525 00:01:19.370 --> 00:01:20.180 We've proposed NOTE Confidence: 0.82558525 00:01:20.180 --> 00:01:22.220 retention bonuses and pay increases, NOTE Confidence: 0.82558525 00:01:22.220 --> 00:01:24.668 and a lot of other things NOTE Confidence: 0.82558525 00:01:24.668 --> 00:01:26.710 to keep people here. Ken NOTE Confidence: 0.82558525 00:01:26.710 --> 00:01:28.920 Zarif is with education Austin. NOTE Confidence: 0.82558525 00:01:28.920 --> 00:01:30.876 The Teachers union for AISD says NOTE Confidence: 0.82558525 00:01:30.876 --> 00:01:33.373 the district has to do more to help NOTE Confidence: 0.82558525 00:01:33.373 --> 00:01:35.489 those on the verge of leaving by NOTE Confidence: 0.82558525 00:01:35.489 --> 00:01:37.637 offering higher pay and more support. NOTE Confidence: 0.82817215 00:01:37.640 --> 00:01:39.404 The people that are keeping this NOTE Confidence: 0.82817215 00:01:39.404 --> 00:01:41.326 district moving and are having the NOTE Confidence: 0.82817215 00:01:41.326 --> 00:01:43.056 hardest time surviving in this NOTE Confidence: 0.82817215 00:01:43.056 --> 00:01:44.420 insanely expensive city, Potasnik NOTE Confidence: 0.82817215 00:01:44.420 --> 00:01:47.220 says it's going to take a lot to see real NOTE Confidence: 0.82817215 00:01:47.296 --> 00:01:50.240 change change that she's not going to stick NOTE Confidence: 0.82817215 00:01:50.240 --> 00:01:52.788 around for to fix. The problem with NOTE Confidence: 0.82817215 00:01:52.788 --> 00:01:55.740 take a political will that we have not NOTE Confidence: 0.82817215 00:01:55.740 --> 00:01:59.290 demonstrated that we have as. A city as a NOTE Confidence: 0.86524117 00:01:59.290 --> 00:02:01.936 state in Austin, I'm Maria Aguilera. NOTE Confidence: 0.7278442 00:02:03.360 --> 00:02:03.748 Yeah, that.