Marble Falls ISD faces waning substitute fill rate

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  • ESS, a company MFISD will contract with, is a Tennessee-based educational placement company that “specializes in placing qualified staff in daily, long-term and permanent K-12 school district positions including substitute teachers, paraprofessionals and other school support staff. File photo
    ESS, a company MFISD will contract with, is a Tennessee-based educational placement company that “specializes in placing qualified staff in daily, long-term and permanent K-12 school district positions including substitute teachers, paraprofessionals and other school support staff. File photo
The COVID-19 pandemic has magnified school districts’ difficulties in finding and retaining substitute teachers, and now Marble Falls Independent School District officials are considering outsourcing their substitute program. MFISD has reached a three-year low on substitute “fill rate” with only 56 percent of openings placing a substitute teacher in classes, MFISD Director of Human Resources…

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