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JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Juneau schools have been scrambling to get teachers in classrooms as they face a shortage of substitute teachers.
The Juneau Empire reports (http://bit.ly/1WlmECx) the problem is that schools have a low fill-rate, which is a percentage that shows how often a substitute can be found for a teacher absence.
An ideal fill-rate is 100 percent, but this year the August and September rates for the Juneau School District were 69 and 62, respectively. Those are the lowest numbers recorded since schools implemented Aesop, a substitute management service, in 2012.
District Human Resources Manager Ted VanBronkhorst says when there aren't enough substitutes available, other teachers take in additional students or volunteer to teach a class when they don't have one. Principals have also stepped in to teach to make sure students have an instructor.
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