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Also, schools share some responsibility and should offer helpful orientations that include general information about such recruitment efforts on their campuses.

To better deal with shortages of qualified applicants now and in the future, government policy makers need to acknowledge that government job training programs could stand improvement.

By providing our school districts with direct access to criminal information records, we can help ensure timely and complete information on prospective school employees.

Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.

Good education is so important. We do need to look at the way people are taught. It not just about qualifications to get a job. It's about being educated.

One of the most powerful tools for empowering individuals and communities is making certain that any individual who wants to receive a quality education can do so.

With the commissioning of new schools undertaken by a local director of school standards, decisions will be fair and transparent, rooted in the needs of the local community. The admissions code and the role of the adjudicator will also be strengthened to provide fairness for all children.

We have to provide good teachers, good environment, community involvement with schools.

What we look for are people that are technically competent. You need a background in a scientific field, whether it's as a scientist, an engineer, medical doctor, or, you know, a person that's in the military with some kind of technical background.

We need to build on what we know works - local oversight of schools to keep a check on performance, timely interventions in schools to support those at risk of failing, and partnerships between schools to help each one to improve.