Like many school systems facing teacher shortages, South Carolina's Allendale County has looked overseas for help. Rural districts can struggle to attract American teachers to remote areas that lack plentiful housing, shopping and services such as health care, especially for lower salaries than some bigger districts offer.Cave is hoping to hire local teachers to fill the gaps left by several teachers' impending departures. Her challenges with teacher shortages, she said, have not let up since the pandemic, when many school districts used federal relief money to post new positions, then had difficulty finding enough teachers. "For rural America, impoverished America, it is still a problem recruiting teachers. "At Halifax County Schools in rural North Carolina, 103 of the 159 teachers are from other countries.

Source: Economic Times March 12, 2026 19:12 UTC