‘No one is coming to our rescue’: Inside rural California’s alarming teacher shortage

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The new kindergarten teacher resigned via email on a Sunday night in February.

It didn’t matter that 18 children would show up in her classroom the next morning. She said she was done. Effective immediately.

Administrators at Alturas Elementary School were forced to scramble. They found a substitute teacher for that first day—a small miracle, given there are so few in rural Modoc County.

Read more from the Los Angeles Times.

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