“We had a large number of families … who were on the waitlist and we just couldn’t just get into the program because of the overwhelming demand,” an official said.
According to the Illinois Association of Regional Superintendents of Schools’ educator shortage survey from the previous academic year, more than 30% of open teacher, support staff and special education positions went un- or underfilled the highest percentage in the six years.
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