While the bell for the start of classes has rung for a week, there is still a shortage of more than 200 full-time teachers in schools in Quebec, reports the most recent report from the government.
Posted yesterday at 11:26
According to the Ministry of Education, which publishes a weekly inventory, there were 210 teachers missing last Wednesday in Quebec schools. This figure had risen to 502 the previous week.
It is at the school service center in Montreal, the largest in the province, that the situation is most pressing. There are 79 vacancies left.
In Nord-du-Québec, the Cree school board was looking for 50 full-time teachers.
However, this assessment is not complete: 13 school service centres, five of which are located in Montérégie, and two school boards (English-Montréal and Kativik) did not provide their figures to the Department.
This data only includes full-time positions. The directions estimate that if one took into account the posts of part-time teachers, which are legion in the schools, the number of missing professors would double.