If your community adopted an educator-housing program, what would need to happen to make it effective? By Brittany Rodgers, M.Ed. When we talk about teacher shortages, the conversation usually begins with recruitment: How do we attract more people to the profession? Recruitment matters, but it is only the beginning. A school can successfully fill a vacancy and still lose that educator within a year - or sooner - when the cost of living makes remaining in the job financially u

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