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How One Bay Area District Is Addressing the Teacher Shortage through Affordable Housing

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What to Know About the Relationship Between Teacher Turnover and Housing

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But soon, Austin Independent School District will convert it into an apartment complex to house teachers and staff who are increasingly getting priced out of the urban Texas district. This year, EdSurge has been reporting on the relationship between America’s housing crisis and high teacher turnover rates in K-12 education.

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How a Parking Lot Became a Panacea for This School District’s Housing Crisis

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In a number of places, including the San Francisco Bay Area, exorbitant housing costs are responsible for high teacher turnover rates. Drawing Up Plans Before its employee housing program launched in 2022, JUHSD was losing between 20 and 25 percent of its staff every year. “We A $33 million voter-approved bond passed in June 2018.

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Couch surfing, living in cars: Housing insecurity derails foster kids’ college dreams 

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But the house was too chaotic to focus on studies, and without support, Johnson dropped out. She gave it another go at 19, but said when foster care support money stopped, she was forced to leave her grandmother’s house and college. But her housing arrangement didn’t last. She enrolled again and excelled at Citrus in Glendora.

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Gingerbread House Making: A Fun and Engaging Cross-Curricular Lesson

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This past week I did a gingerbread house making activity (described below) that included math and language arts connections with my two groups of gifted 3rd through 6th graders. The Gingerbread House Lesson. Asking students to write a story that features a gingerbread house. Write a Story About a Gingerbread House.

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Spiraling rents are wreaking havoc on college students seeking housing for the fall

The Hechinger Report

After racking up $16,800 in debt, she finally moved out and now commutes from her parents’ house, 30 minutes away on the rare occasions when there isn’t traffic. It’s insane,” she said of the cost of housing in this city east of San Francisco. But the price of off-campus student housing is up about 6 percent nationally.

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When Affordable Housing Is Scarce, So Are Educators

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EAGLE COUNTY, Colo. Carrie Rodgers gestures toward the silver medallion sitting atop her fridge, then waves it off. It’s nothing really, she shrugs. Still, she reaches for the disc and sets it on the kitchen counter for a closer look. Two roofs and a pair of windows are etched into its center.

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