Louisiana has asked teachers who have retired back as far as 2010 to come back to the classroom and would still be able to get paid as well as receive retirement

Anna O. Law

"more teachers departed public school classrooms in Texas than at any point since at least 2007, the earliest year with state data...From 2020 to 2025, the state lost 35,000 teachers who would have stayed in the classroom...That’s equivalent to nearly 10% of the current teacher workforce."