Rural Colorado schools, unable to recruit out-of-town teachers, are trying to get locals into classrooms
The question of how to draw more teachers into a profession defined by high stress and low pay has become increasingly difficult for administrators like Dave Slothower to answer over the past two years.
“This is important work,” said Slothower, superintendent of Calhan School District east of Colorado Springs. “I don’t think anybody would disagree that the mission of public schools is incredibly important and incredibly vital to so many things in our country, and we find ourselves in a position that to be a teacher in a public school, you almost have to take a vow of poverty.”