This school year, Montana, a state with fewer than 8,000 teachers, had 1,000 unfilled teaching positions. Meanwhile, Dutton-Brady Public Schools, a rural district about an hour from the Canadian border, easily filled its three vacancies.

Lindsay E. Jones is the CEO of CAST, where she works with educators and researchers to design learner-centered, flexible and accessible education systems rooted in the Universal Design for Learning.

District leaders can use the report to see how others are implementing technology strategies and compare them to their own efforts.

Linda Darling-Hammond is a world-renowned education researcher who serves as president and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute, a nonprofit and nonpartisan think tank focused on creating equitable access to education.