1) All you have to do is read the papers.
2) No
3) No, the classrooms are more crowded now as schools make due with
less teachers.
4) No. Businesses shut down and huge chunks of property taxes
disappeared. Income tax revenue has shrunk due to unemployment,
stock market losses, etc. Therefore, state aid to schools is cut
also.
5) It disappeared along with the economy. People who were going to
retire didn't. People crowded the schools in anticipation of the
supposed shortage. People who got laid-off in industry went
through alternate route programs. Supply outran demand.

That quote you noted was before the events of 9/11 which caused the
first economic blow of the century. That was 8 years ago. That's
a lifetime in today's economic cycles. Depending on information
that old is unwise.

On 10/22/09, Jake in Jersey wrote:
> On 10/11/09, ron/nj wrote:
>> The job market is very bleak right now unless you are looking
>> in one of the few areas that are still hiring.
>>
>> ron
>
> Just why is the job market so poor right now? Has there been a
> huge drop in enrollment? Did overcrowded classrooms suddenly
> disappear? Did towns lower property taxes and have to lay
> people off? What happened to the impending teacher shortage of
> 2001?
>
> "The shortage is critical. We need to hire two million teachers
> over the next ten years," said Segun Eubanks, teacher
> recruitment and retention specialist for the National Education
> Association,
> ---- quoted in local NJ newspaper Aug 2001

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