Mr. Levy is rightfully enraged by a State Education Department order that forbids the city to fill any public school vacancy as long as there are vacancies in the low-performing schools.
Even though the medical profession is highly distressful, there are many students competing for each medical school vacancy.
To avoid situations in which one person was supervising work at two schools, the Division of School Facilities won approval to circumvent the legal requirements for competitive bidding for the 133 schools with vacancies this year.
Howson recently set up a free website, TeachVac, to help schools match vacancies to teachers in their area.
Thelma Baxter, the superintendant of District 5, said her district was at a disadvantage because the four schools with vacancies are small.
Around two thirds of year 9 pupils were taught in schools where vacancies in both maths and science were either somewhat or very difficult to fill".
Increasingly top employers such as PwC and Natwest are offering school-leaver vacancies to encourage and train talent from all walks of life, rather than just via the traditional Russell Group university route.
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But many of the schools still have vacancies: of the 52 small schools opening in September and now accepting ninth graders, 35 are on the list of those with space available.
Mr. Levy's interpretation of the order was that after Sept. 7, he could hire uncertified teachers to work in low-performing middle and high schools, but that vacancies in low-performing elementary schools still had to be filled with certified ones.
And currently at least 15 major school districts have vacancies in their top leadership post, the council said.
