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LA Times Today: A teacher shortage is stressing rural California schools

LA Times Today: A teacher shortage is stressing rural California schools

Watch L.A. Times Today at 7 p.m. on Spectrum News 1 on Channel 1 or live stream on the Spectrum News App. Palos Verdes Peninsula and Orange County viewers can watch on Cox Systems on channel 99.

In the upper-east corner of northern California, in rural Modoc County, a shortage of teachers is creating a serious problem for its school district.

L.A. Times staff writer Hailey Branson-Potts covers California and told Lisa McRee why it’s so difficult to recruit teachers to take jobs in shrinking small towns even when the pay is good and the living is affordable.

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