Tom McGuire

By TYLER ELLYSON UNK Communications KEARNEY – Tom McGuire needs only one word to describe the current teacher shortage. Unreal. “Everybody needs teachers,” said McGuire, a middle school principal in Sioux City, Iowa. When he graduated from the University of Nebraska at Kearney in December 1990, there were 70 to 80 candidates competing for the same job, according to McGuire, who’s held teaching and administrative positions in Millard, Columbus and Central … [Read more...] about Facing ‘unreal’ teacher shortage, school districts turn to UNK to fill demand