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Desert Sands outlines recruitment push and teacher residency program after vacancy declines
Summary
Personnel staff told the board the district has reduced vacancies to single digits this school year, has hired about 101 people, and received a record 115 applications for a new teacher residency program that will begin its first cohort in June 2026.
District personnel staff presented the board with recruitment data and an update on a teacher residency program designed to grow local candidates into credentialed teachers.
Presenters summarized national and state-level shortages in certain credential areas and said Desert Sands has seen a steady pattern of roughly 100 combined resignations and retirements over the past four years but has reduced vacancies from the 'thirties' three years ago to single digits at the start of the current school year. Staff reported the district hired about 101 people this year;…
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