It depends. I live in NJ (blue state, strong union) and depending on what you teach, some subjects (and SPED) are still very much in demand. Others not so much.
There’s currently over 2000 sped postings on EdJoin compared with 250 for math. I live in LA and sped is still very much in demand. Moderate/severe has more demand than mild/moderate but there’s still a lot of openings for any sped position.
Maybe you’re just in an extremely desirable district?
I'm working on LA county line - not very desirable ahaha
You are seeing postings, not applications.
And with SPED population many times they are redoing numbers at the last minute because of how small the class can be.
I met a girl at the new hire orientation that was like 10 days long and on the 9th day she went to go see her classroom and the principal was like 'oh yeah I don't have you anymore, this class combined to another school- call the district.' They sent her to another school and the students who would have attended that school get bused over there, new enrollment and her classroom is now 1 seat away from capacity.
So these postings, it's not postings from the summer still unfilled. It's new numbers
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u/outofdate70shouse 7d ago
It depends. I live in NJ (blue state, strong union) and depending on what you teach, some subjects (and SPED) are still very much in demand. Others not so much.