BERNARDSTON Following Bernardston Elementary School Principal Kelly Carriere’s resignation, all three schools in the Pioneer Valley Regional School District will have interim principals at the helm for the upcoming school year.While the district.
vacancies with thousands of empty teaching positions expected this school year, veterans in the sunshine state are now being asked to step up and fill in with these vacancies. so here with more is florida education commissioner manny diaz. hey, manny. hey, good morning. great to be with you on the show. ainsley: so good to have you. this is amazing idea. 9500 school vacancies down in florida and schools open up within the coming weeks. first of all, why the vacancies. i think the 9500 number is wrong. that may include some other vacancies that may be support personnel. but we do have vacancies in the state. this is great pathway for us to be able to have our veterans in this veteran friendly state step up to the plate and fill in some of those vacancies. ainsley: i think it includes faculty and staff so it could be people working in office jobs and that kind of thing in the schools. are you getting a lot of feedback from the veterans? are they interested in these jobs? well,
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big betting process. most of the school marshals are administrative support personnel. we have five and a half million students. about 35 to 40% of our staff is support personnel. we found through this program that we have support personnel in our school districts that have backgrounds in law enforcement and military experience that we have kind of worked out. we have worked through this issue for several years. it s just an option. it s a voluntary option for those districts that feel that need for them. we would nef want a teacher to do something they don t want to do. the school marshal program they are trained in a police academy is a rigorous training. it s really not conducive to most of our teaching positions.