North Carolina has a teacher shortage. Enrollment in Schools of Education within the University of North Carolina system has dropped 30% since 2010. And that, according to WRAL, is having a big impact on the number of teachers available to North Carolina schools. In southeastern North Carolina alone, 175 UNCW students graduated with education degrees in the 2015 – 16 academic year. That’s down from 233 the previous year and 288 the year before that. Those numbers come from a StarNews report –