es for Teacher Education also stated that a national intervention policy is needed to reverse the trend of minority teachers disappearing from or not entering classrooms (Otuya, 2000).
The National Center for Education Statistics reported that in 1989 the number of public school teachers increased 2.3 million from 1988, representing a 1.9% increase. At that time it was felt by researchers that there was no shortage of teachers. It was also projected that the salary would increase as would the status of the profession and this would provide enough of a lure for the numbers of teachers needed. However, the National Education Association (NEA) reported an alternate view which stated that at that time 32,000 teaching vacancies existed in 100 of the largest school districts and 79 faced a shortage of teachers for the year following (Otuya, 2000).
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