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Montana’s ‘last resort’ for finding teachers is becoming increasingly common in rural schools
Montana offers the lowest beginning teacher salary in the nation, according to the most recent federal statistics and national union information. Generally, those salaries are even lower in rural areas.
Barely any Montana schools used emergency authorizations to certify teachers a few years ago. Now, that number has jumped to 94, more than double what it was last year.
And almost all of them are in small, rural schools.
Whether the jump illustrates a worsening teacher shortage in those schools is unclear. But other evidence has long since established that the shortage reached “crisis levels” in rural schools, and the increase in emergency authorizations lays bare how schools are coping.
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