Not since 1999 has Italy held open examinations to fill teaching positions in its public schools.
The Regents' proposal comes after several school districts across the state, including New York City, struggled to fill teaching positions in the weeks leading up to the start of school.
When Italy held examinations to fill teaching positions in its public schools last week for the first time since 1999, it set off something of a nationwide frenzy among the country's despairing, underemployed and unemployed educators.
With 50 million children set to return to school, districts all over the country are still scrambling to fill teaching positions and are having an especially difficult time finding qualified applicants to fill shortages in vital areas like math and science.
This has led to a nationwide scramble to fill teaching positions.
Other cities experience the same thing: Oxford schools struggle to fill teaching jobs as rents rise and housing costs far outstrip wage increases.
But the situation looks set to deteriorate sharply as a population bulge, already putting huge pressure on primary schools, particularly in major cities, feeds through to secondary schools where head teachers are experiencing difficulties filling teaching vacancies.
A freedom of information request to a sample group of schools found that the average spend on advertising to fill teaching vacancies in 2014-15 was just under £17,000 – up from £10,000 four years ago.
Ofsted also commented that the school served a large, rural catchment area and had difficulty filling teaching posts.
Initially conceived of as a small college devoted to the liberal arts, he ordered the campus built for a maximum of 1,500 students and recruited many young junior faculty to fill teaching positions.
A couple of months ago I filled in teaching a college course on musical theater.
