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The Teacher Shortage

By Laura Knoy on Friday, July 13, 2001.

Many schools in NH, and nationwide, have a hard time hiring teachers, there just aren?t enough of them to go around. Teaching doesn?t pay well compared to many other professions and classroom stress leads many new teachers to burn out and quit. We?ll find out how NH school districts are dealing with the situation. Laura talks with NH?s Commissioner of Education Nick Donahue, and a representative of the NH chapter of the National Education Association, http://www.neanh.org/ a teachers union.

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