The most drastic proposal, from Texas, would prevent public officials from earning more than the state's governor. Another bill links the salaries of superintendents to first-year teachers.
Better pay, community support and empathy from district leadership are among the main changes teachers say they require in order to stay in the profession.
Paul Vallas, the former superintendent in Chicago and Philadelphia, promises to put alternative high schools into empty or underenrolled buildings, and create more charter and magnet schools.
Nearly 80% of the schools that participated in a new survey reported vacancies while nearly all of the districts said their shortages are as bad or worse than last year.
"Opportunity awareness is the name of the game," says James Guerra, of JG Consulting, founder of the platform, which he created to help show leaders just how vast vacancies are in this field and to make the hiring process as seamless as possible for school districts.
Nohra was accused of having a surveillance camera mounted in a school building to watch over an employee station. He and his attorney claimed he was trying to catch an employee accused of theft in office and had the approval of the school board and its lawyers.
A couple created the "Dissident Homeschool" channel, a social media outlet that distributes neo-Nazi-themed home-schooling curriculum to more than 2,400 subscribers nationwide, reports say.
