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Some Michigan school districts ‘say a prayer’ to fill teacher openings

DATE:  November 27, 2024

School administrators in northern Michigan used to see 60 to 80 applications for open teacher positions.

There would be a pre-meeting just to whittle down a stack of submissions a decade ago, said Justin Gluesing, superintendent for the Alpena-Montmorency-Alcona Educational Service District. That stack shrank to just six to eight applications overall just five or six years ago, Gluesing said in his last year hiring as an Alpena Public Schools administrator.

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