I'm Matt Bellini, founding partner of Puck News, and I'm covering the inside conversation

about money and power in Hollywood.

With my new show The Town, I'm going to take you inside Hollywood, with exclusive

insight on what people in show business are actually talking about.

Multiple times a week, I'll talk to some of the smartest people I know, journalists,

insiders, all of whom can break down the hottest topics and entertainment to tell you what's

really going on.

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Welcome back to Plain English.

I hope you had a nice Labor Day weekend.

America students are fully back at school this month, and according to many media sources,

districts won't have nearly enough teachers to greet them.

The Washington Post has warned of a quote, catastrophic teacher shortage.

ABC World News Tonight called it a growing crisis.

The Wall Street Journal warned of a quote, dog-eat-dog scramble to hire underqualified teachers,

and we have several national surveys now that show a surge of teachers planning to quit

or retire early.

This sounds really, really bad.

And for weeks, I've been watching the American National Teacher Shortage Narrative bloom

across the media landscape, and it made me curious, is it real?

Or is it not?

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