{"id":1162574,"date":"2022-09-13T15:38:58","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T20:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1162574"},"modified":"2022-09-14T15:38:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T20:38:00","slug":"ut-tyler-heads-up-effort-to-address-teacher-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1162574","title":{"rendered":"UT Tyler heads up effort to address teacher shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/09\/tchrshort.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1162575\" \/>TYLER &#8212; Thanks in no small part to the pandemic, the entire country is facing a teacher shortage.  And with UT Tyler heading up the effort, educators met Tuesday in Tyler to address what the university&#8217;s Dr. Frank Dykes calls &#8220;a crisis situation.&#8221; The next step is to take information shared at Tuesday&#8217;s meeting, assemble a plan, and send it to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board &#8212; with an eye on applying for a grant to put the ideas into action. Dykes says the plan will be submitted by the end of September, with hopes for a response by the end of the year. Dykes heads up the university&#8217;s School of Education.  UT Tyler has already been awarded a $50,000 planning grant from the Coordinating Board.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Thanks in no small part to the pandemic, the entire country is facing a teacher shortage. And with UT Tyler heading up the effort, educators met Tuesday in Tyler to address what the university&#8217;s Dr. Frank Dykes calls &#8220;a crisis situation.&#8221; The next step is to take information shared at Tuesday&#8217;s meeting, assemble &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1162574\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UT Tyler heads up effort to address teacher shortage<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1162578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/09\/tchrshort.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"UT Tyler heads up effort to address teacher shortage","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1162574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 13:28:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/09\/tchrshort.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"UT Tyler heads up effort to address teacher shortage","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1162574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1162576,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162574\/revisions\/1162576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1162578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1162574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1162574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1162574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}