MVWSD seems to be switching to a good recruitment tool - (semi)PERMANENT POOL - for substitute teachers. This will help recruit from the small pool of certificated candidates those who want more steady work. Most local districts only do day-by-day substitute assignment. This has meant - those teachers wishing 'more days/more hours/more income' have had to commit to several different districts simultaneously.

This may mean - MVWSD can keep substitutes in-house and better compete with adjacent school districts (there is an underlying teacher absentee rate that can be satisfied by this type of employment program.)

CASTRO and MISTRAL - two of the most Segregated-by-wealth schools - not surprising that they have recruitment problems. WHAT ABOUT A RECRUITMENT BONUS of plus 10 percent (or so) for those schools? The teachers union says - why a 37 percent operating RESERVES when many student needs are UNMET?

(Castro 210 and Mistral over a hundred HIGHEST NEEDS STUDENTS, - the latest available poor-and-also-English-learning student numbers available.)