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Federal policies risk worsening an already dire rural teacher shortage HALIFAX COUNTY, N.C. — When Ivy McFarland first traveled from her native Honduras to teach elementary Spanish in North Carolina, she spent a week in Chapel Hill for orientation. By the end of that week, McFarland realized the college town on the outskirts of Raleigh was nowhere near where she’d actually be teaching. On the car ride to her school district, the city faded into the suburbs. Those suburbs turned into farmland. The farmland stretched into more farmland, until, two hours later, she made it to her new home in rural Halifax County. https://hechingerreport.org/federal-policies-risk-worsening-an-already-dire-rural-teacher-shortage/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social