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Rural schools have a teacher shortage. Why don’t people who live there, teach there?

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The problem is the same across Montana – where 65% of rural schools in remote settings reported difficulty filling vacancies, compared with 35% of nonrural schools. This school year, with the coronavirus pandemic making it even harder to bring in teachers from elsewhere, education leaders in the state issued 122 emergency waivers for unlicensed teachers to work in classrooms, the highest number since at least 2005.

Neal Morton
The Hechinger Report

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