States Face Different Special Education Staffing Challenges that Require Targeted Responses

Loretta Mason-Williams, Elizabeth Bettini, Allison Gilmour, & Roddy Theobald

2025

Brookings

Special education teacher shortages persist nationwide, with turnover rising sharply after the pandemic and varying widely across states.

Audiences

Districts

Policymakers

Researchers

States

Research Challenges

Composition

Distribution

Stability

Research Contributors

Policy

School and District Contexts

Research Personnel

School and District Leaders

Special Education Teachers

States

Hawaii

Indiana

Massachusetts

Pennsylvania

Texas

Virginia

Washington