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Low Income Kansas School Districts Struggle with Teacher Shortage

By Kansas News Service
Published November 27, 2017 at 4:36 PM CST
Teacher Sarah Drubinskiy leads her students in a lesson at a school in Garden City. The southwest Kansas school district is among those with higher rates of teacher vacancies. (Photo credit: Josh Harbour, Garden City Telegram)
Teacher Sarah Drubinskiy leads her students in a lesson at a school in Garden City. The southwest Kansas school district is among those with higher rates of teacher vacancies. (Photo credit: Josh Harbour, Garden City Telegram)

The shortage of qualified teachers in Kansas is hitting children in low-income communities particularly hard. That’s according to an analysis by the Kansas News Service. Reporter Celia Llopis-Jepsen has more.

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The Kansas News Service produces essential enterprise reporting, diving deep and connecting the dots in tracking the policies, issues and and events that affect the health of Kansans and their communities. The team is based at KCUR and collaborates with public media stations and other news outlets across Kansas. Kansas News Service stories and photos may be republished at no cost with proper attribution and a link back to kcur.org. The Kansas News Service is made possible by a group of funding organizations, led by the Kansas Health Foundation. Other founders include United Methodist Health Ministry Fund, Sunflower Foundation, REACH Healthcare Foundation and the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City.
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