As millions of Florida’s school children returned to classes this week, many schools struggled to find enough teachers greet and teach them. “We are very concerned about the growing teacher shortage,” Cathy Boehme of the Florida Education Association told the state Board of Education on Wednesday. Her review of three years’ worth of statewide teacher job vacancies posted to district websites in the days before school began revealed a disturbing trend.
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