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Thursday, January 21, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Needs for special education Annual study cites shortage of instructors in Kansas area
By Stacy Foster
Kansan staff writer
A shortage of special education teachers continues to plague Kansas school districts, according to an annual education study by Emporia State University.
Jack Skillett, dean of education at Emporia State, said the reasons for the lack of teachers in the field could be that it was such a demanding position and that there was a lack of people interested in special education.
"I'ta a very demanding job, even though you work with a few number of children. After a four- or five-year child, I don't wear on the teacher," Skillt said.
Special education has a high teacher turnover rate. After teaching for a few years, many special education teachers are in a regular classroom, Skilllet said.
"I think there will be more movement with special education teachers and we can expect that to continue." Skillett said.
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Edward Meyen, dean of education at KU, said that many rural communities had difficulties in recruiting teachers and that it was especially difficult in a field like special education.
"We are better off than we were nine years ago, but not quite as well off as five years ago," Skillett said.
The level of the special education teacher shortage has been about the same for the past three years.
Gary Clark, professor of special education, said some communities without special education programs had formed special education cooperatives.
Jim Wheeler is director of such a cooperative in Oskaloosa.
The Atchison-Jefferson Educational Cooperative in Oskaloosa covers seven school districts within those counties.
Cooperatives share their resources and enable many rural communities to have special education instruction when they otherwise might not have had ample resources, Wheeler said.
Wheeler is working on his doctorate degree at KU. He has been in the special education field for about 14 years.
"Most of the people that get and stay involved in special education are dedicated to helping the kids, and that is why I've stayed so long," Wheeler said.
Places like California are more attractive than Kansas to some graduates, Clark said. That could also explain the shortage of available teachers.
Clark said that KU had one of the best special education doctorate programs in the United States.
A study that appeared in the 1966 Journal of Special Education ranked KU's special education doctoral program as the best in the country, according to faculty members of special education schools.
KU, however, does not have a program at the undergraduate level. Clark said that the department had drafted a proposal for a special education undergraduate program.
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