BOZEMAN, Mont. – A staffing shortage of substitute teachers mixed with COVID concerns and full-time teachers calling out sick is affecting some of the biggest school districts in Montana.
At the beginning of the 2021-2022 school year in September, human resource directors at some of the biggest school districts across the state from Billings, Bozeman, Butte, Missoula, Helena and Great Falls said they are still in search of filling positions.
Still the most common needs at these school districts continues to be substitute teachers, paraprofessionals, school lunch workers, custodians and in some schools bus drivers.