Doubling up on classrooms, using online teachers and turning to support staff: How schools are dealing with the ongoing teacher shortage

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  • Source: CNN
  • 09/12/2023
CNN — Millions of students are returning for another school year marked by challenging teacher shortages, causing schools to double up classrooms, move courses online and employ what critics have labeled as underqualified teachers.

As states lower the certification standards to become a teacher, education experts worry these tactics could delay students’ recovery from pandemic learning loss.

Inside a school cafeteria in Lancaster, Texas, the impacts of the brutal teacher shortage are clear as day.

Close to 50 students from two ninth grade biology classes squeeze together for a lecture taught by Briana Jack, the only certified science teacher available to these students.

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