Districts are paying teachers to work longer hours, offering retention bonuses and pursuing other strategies that break with tradition, an analysis says.
More than half of 2,500 students in the small Russellville city school district now identify as Hispanic or Latino, and about a quarter are English language learners, or EL students.
The "educator talent gap" currently taxing U.S. schools will skyrocket unless working conditions improve and district leaders can recruit more qualified teachers, a K-12 staffing company warns.
Women, leaders of the group Familias Unidas por la Educación and the group of about 40 who met outside of Bowie High School were upset about what they say is a failure of local and federal leadership.
