<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=1WlaW6_0v0tPzgm00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1WlaW6_0v0tPzgm00" width="960" height="640" ><figcaption>© Adobe Stock photo</figcaption></figure><p>Arlington school leaders say they are almost, but not quite, home free when it comes to filling all teacher slots before the Aug. 26 start of school.</p><p>Superintendent Francisco Durán reported at the Aug. 15 School Board meeting that while classroom-teacher positions are 97.6 percent staffed, slightly more than 60 vacancies remain to be filled.</p><p>“We’re continuing to work on that . . . to make sure we can fill as many vacancies as possible,” Durán said.</p><p>Getting to 100-percent staffed up with teachers seems to be running just slightly behind last summer, when there were a similar number of unfilled positions as of Aug. 3. Nonetheless, “we’re in a very good spot,” Durán said.</p></div></body>

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Arlington getting closer to filling all teacher vacancies

Arlington school leaders say they are almost, but not quite, home free when it comes to filling all teacher slots before the Aug. 26 start of school. Superintendent Francisco Durán reported at the Aug. 15 School Board meeting that while classroom-teacher positions are 97.6 percent staffed, slightly more than 60 vacancies remain to be filled.