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Keeping Teachers In The Classroom And An Italian Heritage Festival On This West Virginia Morning

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On this West Virginia Morning, teaching is the career that all other careers are built on, but recently West Virginia has struggled to fill vacancies in classrooms. Chris Schulz continues our new radio series “Help Wanted: Understanding West Virginia’s Labor Force” by exploring the struggle to keep the state’s schools staffed.

Also, in this show, the 44th West Virginia Italian Heritage Festival is gearing up for a full weekend of activities this Labor Day holiday weekend. Caroline MacGregor reports.

West Virginia Morning is a production of West Virginia Public Broadcasting which is solely responsible for its content.

Support for our news bureaus comes from Concord University and Shepherd University.

Caroline MacGregor is our assistant news director and produced this episode.

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