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Cheshire board raises teacher-recruitment concerns, suggests housing incentives and loan-forgiveness models
Summary
Board members and Representative Linehan discussed teacher recruitment challenges tied to housing affordability and suggested state incentives such as housing support, down-payment assistance or student-loan forgiveness modeled on prior proposals.
Cheshire school leaders told Representative Linehan that hiring teachers has become more difficult in recent years, with local housing availability and affordability cited as core barriers to recruiting early-career educators.
Board members described a shrinking national pipeline and said Cheshire increasingly attracts experienced educators from other districts rather than recent graduates, which raises…
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