“Teachers Wanted
The recent surge in hiring, including about 90,000 teachers over the past four months, reflects pent-up demand. There are still 236,000 fewer public education jobs than seven years ago, noted Elise Gould, economist at the liberal Economic Policy Institute. But she calculates that the real public-education job shortfall to keep up with enrollment is about 410,000.”
There is no better way to kill an economy than hiring teachers; they have bankrupted NJ. Even worse, the students increasingly are from populations that contribute nothing towards the tax base.
imho if teacher hiring was NJ's only problem it would be in pretty good shape. This U.S. educationstinks myth is another one of my pet peeves.