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A really severe teacher shortage

Posted on October 11, 2008

168 openings for classroom instructors and 115 for speech therapists and psychologists: That s how many vacancies the Clark County school district has to fill, the October 10th Las Vegas Review-Journal reports. School officials are trying to reduce class size and start new programs for autistic students and recruiters are traveling this month to Dallas to look for staff. (This school district sounds like it s had to deal with some big changes in general -from 1996 to 2007, the district s overall enrollment increased 72 percent.) [H]igh teacher turnover and high demand for special ed...

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