Nebraska doesn’t need to reinvent the wheel to solve its teacher shortage

Nebraska doesn’t need to reinvent the wheel to solve its teacher shortage

Class change time on the University of Nebraska at Omaha campus in September 2024. (Cindy Gonzalez/Nebraska Examiner)Nebraska’s teacher shortage is real. But so is our progress. According to the Nebraska Department of Education, schools across our state entered the 2025-2026 academic year with approximately 490 unfilled positions, down from 669 the year before. This tells us something important: The strategies we’ve been investing in are working…