By KUT Education Reporter Becky Fogel and Multimedia Producer Michael Minasi
Charles Martinez asked himself: What’s worse than a crisis?
The dean of the College of Education at UT Austin, Martinez says the teacher shortage that Texas and the U.S. are facing is a chronic crisis that has only grown worse during the COVID-19 pandemic. So, he tried to find a term to describe it.
I actually looked it up myself and found the better word to describe the moment is probably ‘a brewing catastrophe,’
he said. A crisis that has become much more challenging in the face of the pandemic and the aftermath of the pandemic and the sort of divisive moments that teachers are facing.
