rural teacher shortage
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Rural teacher shortage bill battles Colo. Senate snag
A compromise hammered out Monday morning between Colorado’s House and Senate means a bill – intended to help resolve rural teacher shortages – that almost made it to the governor’s desk has another shot. Senate Bill 85 won final approval for House amendments on a 31-3 vote on April 27. But Senate President Pro Tem Jerry Sonnenberg…
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KUNC’s query: Is Colorado’s teacher-accountability law undermining recruitment?
Greeley-based KUNC public radio’s Ann Marie Awad continues her ongoing inquiry into Colorado’s teacher shortage – it’s especially acute in rural schools – and she turns up an another possible factor: The state’s watershed teacher-evaluation policy, implemented by the legislature and signed into law in 2010. In a piece aired this week, Awad talks to educators who surmise…


