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Pedro Camacho

Miami is banking on immigrants to help with the city's imminent teacher shortage

Teacher in the classroom (Credit: Creative commons)

A critical shortage will be affecting students across the state of Florida soon, according to a recent study by Florida Tax Watch which uncovered that school administrators have been scrambling to find enough qualified teachers for the 2024-25 school year.

A lot of it, unsurprisingly, has to do with wages. The National Education Group (NEA) recently published a report showing that Florida ranks 50th in the country for teacher pay, report which Florida's Department of Education labelled "bogus".

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