{"id":886696,"date":"2026-09-07T12:08:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T12:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/886696\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T12:08:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T12:08:20","slug":"class-size-teacher-shortage-top-nlta-concerns-as-school-year-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/886696\/","title":{"rendered":"Class Size, Teacher Shortage Top NLTA Concerns as School Year Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/nlta-nl-newfoundland-and-labrador-teachers-association-president-dale-lambe.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Class Size, Teacher Shortage Top NLTA Concerns as School Year Begins\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">NLTA President Dale Lambe (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>Class size and composition remain pressing concerns for teachers as they head back for another school year. <\/p>\n<p>NLTA President Dale Lambe says retention and recruitment and the shortage of substitute teachers also remain at the forefront for members. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/vocm.com\/2025\/08\/28\/278260\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Education Accord<\/a> released last year has yet to be fully explored and implemented, having been tainted by the revelation that <a href=\"https:\/\/vocm.com\/2025\/09\/12\/former-advisor-on-education-accord-dismayed-by-fake-citations-in-report\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hundreds of citations<\/a> were AI-generated. <\/p>\n<p>Lambe says some 400 teachers contributed to the report and last year\u2019s controversial revelations compromised the integrity of its findings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve had several of those reach out to me, as well as community organizations saying \u2018where do things stand?\u2019 So when you hear that there was maybe irresponsible use of Artificial Intelligence, that\u2019s disconcerting because as educators, to compromise the integrity of the findings is certainly concerning, especially  where there was so many involved.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; NLTA President Dale Lambe (VOCM News) Class size and composition remain pressing concerns for teachers as they&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":886697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,269876,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-886696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/886697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}