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I argued that school districts, local education leaders, should hire administrators and school leaders

and give them a clear mandate of the kind of education they want to see within the school,

and then empower those

local leaders to hire the people who they need in order to meet those goals.

This is your host, Scott Bertrand. And that's Dr. Dan Copeland, Dean of the Graduate School

of Classical Education at Hillsdale College. He has an essay in the Washington Examiner on

how to fix the teacher staffing crisis.

We'll talk in depth about Dr. Copeland about that on today's show.

Dr. Copeland, thanks for joining us.

Yeah, thanks, Scott.

So what does this crisis look like?

Are we short in high schools?

Are we short in grade schools?

This is happening in urban districts, rural districts,

everywhere. How do you describe the crisis? Yeah, well, there, you know, throughout the history of teaching in America, you know, there have been kind of an ebb and flow in terms of

having having a lot of teachers, not having enough teachers, but we are currently in a slide where the

demand exceeds the supply, at least in that demand exceeded the supply by around 100,000,

which is just a staggering number in itself, and then we hit hit COVID and it only got worse.

And so, yes, there's a demand for teachers across the board, K through 12 education.

That said, there are particular areas of need as well.

If you talk to people who do the hiring for school districts, they'll tell you they're

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