Please refer back to the seventeen strategies listed on the Virginia Department of Education's web site. These strategies are intended to address shortages of qualified teachers in one or more of the following ways:

1. attracting individuals to the profession,
2. facilitating entry into teaching,
3. increasing the qualifications of those who enter the field, or
4. improving working conditions and providing support to teachers in order to decrease teacher attrition. Please write in the space below any recommendations you have for state legislators or policy makers regarding changes to any of these strategies.