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Teacher Amanda Ford, center, talks with Candy Smith, service director for the Teachers Health Trust, during a Clark County School District orientation session for new teachers at the Venetian on Thursday, Aug. 15, 2013.

By Brian Nordli (contact)

Thursday, July 31, 2014 | 2 a.m.

With less than a month before the start of the school year, Clark County School District is facing a shortage of 800 teachers and doesn't have enough applicants to fill the positions.

At the end of July, the school district has filled about 1,200 of 2,000 open positions. The majority of those vacancies is concentrated at schools in low-income areas, which have a high turnover rate as teachers leave for better-funded suburban schools where student achievement is generally higher. Compounding the problem, the students in those low-income schools most need the stability of a teacher to start the year. Click to enlarge photo

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Staci Vesneske, Chief Human R...See More
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Jill On 8/03/14, Ex-teacher wrote: > So what is the salary? It must be crap. I can't wait until > this is the norm around the country. Then they'll have to > start paying better and restoring everything they've taken > from teachers. I quit in June 2012 and just finished my > nursing degree. I should be making about $10,000-16,000 more &g...See More
Aug 10, 2014
ex-teacher On 8/10/14, Jill wrote: > On 8/03/14, Ex-teacher wrote: >> So what is the salary? It must be crap. I can't wait until >> this is the norm around the country. Then they'll have to >> start paying better and restoring everything they've taken >> from teachers. I quit in June 2012 and just finished my >> nursing degree...See More
Nov 21, 2014
sped Vegas doesn't produce enough teachers to meet it's demand.
They only have a couple of colleges that produce teachers,
and even in the hard times of cutbacks in '09 and '10,
they were recruiting STEM and Sped teachers from out of
state.

The salary isn't all that bad. A bit better than most
Florida districts. You can look it ...See More
Dec 25, 2014
Phil On 12/25/14, sped wrote: > Vegas doesn't produce enough teachers to meet it's demand. > They only have a couple of colleges that produce teachers, > and even in the hard times of cutbacks in '09 and '10, > they were recruiting STEM and Sped teachers from out of > state. > > The salary isn't all that bad. A bit better than most ...See More
Jan 5, 2015
sped On 1/05/15, Phil wrote: > On 12/25/14, sped wrote: >> Vegas doesn't produce enough teachers to meet it's demand. >> They only have a couple of colleges that produce teachers, >> and even in the hard times of cutbacks in '09 and '10, >> they were recruiting STEM and Sped teachers from out of >> state. >> >&g...See More
Jan 16, 2015


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