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Support Nebraska Department of Education December 2025  \nContents  \nPROCEDURES ....................................................................................................................... 1  \nRESULTS............................................................................................................................... 2  \nTable 1 Original and Return Sample by Region.................................................................... 5  \nTable 2 Original and Return Sample by District/System Size ............................................... 6  \nTable 3 Unfilled Positions by Region ................................................................................... 7  \nTable 4 Unfilled Positions by District/System Size ............................................................... 8  \nTable 5 Unfilled Positions by Endorsement Area and Region .............................................. 9  \nTable 6 Unfilled Positions by Endorsement Area and Size ................................................. 12  \nTable 7 Reasons for Unfilled Positions by Region .............................................................. 15  \nTable 8 Reasons for Unfilled Positions by Size ................................................................... 16  \nTable 9 Reasons for Unfilled Positions by Endorsement Area ........................................... 17  \nTable 10 Solutions for Unfilled Positions by Endorsement Area........................................ 20  \nTable 11 Shortage Areas for 2026-2027 ............................................................................ 23  \nThe purpose of this survey was to determine Nebraska teacher shortages in the fall of 2025 and what the district/system did to address those shortages. The survey conducted by the Nebraska Department of Education (NDE) and disseminated to all Nebraska PK-12 public school districts, Educational Service Units (ESU), and nonpublic school systems, determined the following:  \n􀂃 The number of districts/systems that could not find fully qualified personnel;  \n􀂃 The number of teacher positions for which districts/systems could not find fully qualified personnel;  \n􀂃 The endorsement areas of those positions;  \n􀂃 The reasons why individuals in the applicant pool were not sufficient/appropriate for the positions; and  \n􀂃 What districts/systems did to address the positions not filled with fully qualified personnel.  \nPROCEDURES  \nThe Teacher Vacancy Survey, which is administered online through the NDE Portal, was opened to all Nebraska PK-12 public school districts, Educational Service Units (ESU), and nonpublic school systems, in October 2025. Announcements in the NDE Bulletin (a weekly e-bulletin for NDE Portal users), phone calls, and email reminders were utilized to encourage participation.  \nThe survey asked districts/systems to report the following information:  \n􀂃 The number of positions the district/system needed to fill at the beginning of the 2025-26 school year;  \n􀂃 The number of those positions not filled with fully qualified personnel*;  \n􀂃 The full-time equivalency (FTE) and endorsement area of each unfilled** position;  \n􀂃 The reason for not being able to fill the position with a fully qualified teacher; and  \n􀂃 How the district/system solved the dilemma for the position.  \nNDE gathered the following information using data available from NDE databases:  \n􀂃 Community College Region in which district/system is located  \n􀂃 Size of PK-12 school enrollment  \n1 – Western 2 – West Central  \n3 – Northeast 4 – Central  \n5 – Southeast 6 – Metro  \nFor purposes of this report, public districts, ESUs, and nonpublic systems’ data are combined into total counts as Districts/Systems (coded in orange, Table \\#a); ESUs are combined with the publicschool data as Districts (coded in green, Table \\#b), while the nonpublic data are shown as Systems (coded in yellow, Table \\#c) ","cbCaifj4h1l5Qso1","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifj4h1l5Qso1","pdf",462692,26,"English","# Procedures\n## Survey administration and data collected\n# Results\n## Response rate\n## Districts/Systems with unfilled positions\n## Unfilled positions","[{\"question\":\"What was the purpose of the Teacher Vacancy Survey in Nebraska?\",\"answer\":\"To determine Nebraska teacher shortages in fall 2025 and identify what districts/systems did to address those shortages.\"},{\"question\":\"How was the survey administered and who could respond?\",\"answer\":\"It was administered online through the NDE Portal and opened in October 2025 to all Nebraska PK-12 public school districts, Educational Service Units (ESUs), and nonpublic school systems.\"},{\"question\":\"What information did districts/systems report in the survey?\",\"answer\":\"They reported positions needed at the start of the 2025-26 school year, positions not filled with fully qualified personnel, each unfilled position’s FTE and endorsement area, reasons it could not be filled, and how the district/system addressed the situation.\"}]","Teacher Vacancy Survey Report - Nebraska Department of Education December 2025 | PDF",1792057246,66]