A new bill in the Ohio Senate that is aiming to curb the teacher shortage by allowing veterans to become educators without them having a background in education is leaving both veterans and educators concerned.

Teachers are at the heart of education, and their valuable work must also lead to better salaries and working conditions, the heads of three UN agencies and a partner organization said on Wednesday.

"The negativity out there is around a lot of misinformation and misunderstanding," says Shelley Berman, lead superintendent for SEL at AASA, The Superintendent's Association.

K-12 labor pressures have inspired one principal to turn to an unconventional source for substitute teachers: her students.