Watch now: How these Tucson teachers prepare for the school year
The 2022-23 school year started Thursday for most Tucson-area schools. Meet a few of the teachers at Douglas Elementary School as they prepared for the new wave of students.
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Some substitute teachers and Exceptional Education staff will see bumps in their pay this school year as TUSD deals with hard-to-fill vacancies.
Nearly 26% of teacher vacancies went unfilled last year in Arizona, and more than half of the positions were filled by teachers who did not meet the state’s standard certification requirements, according to a survey.
