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...Baltimore, Md., are neatly dressed in the official school uniform--white shirts and blue pants for the boys, white blouses and blue skirts for the girls. In fact, the only thing out of the ordinary in Room 122 this fall is Espiritu. She is one of three new teachers at the school recruited from the Philippines to help fill Baltimore's yawning teacher shortage. "I had to get out of my comfort zone," says Espiritu, who taught for 14 years at an exclusive private school in Manila. "I had to try something...
...Baltimore school system needed to try something new too. Each year administrators scramble to fill some 800 teacher vacancies. Statewide, Maryland requires 6,000 new teachers annually, but its colleges and universities produce just 2,500, and only the most altruistic of them choose to work in urban schools, where the challenges range from trying to raise low test scores to tending to students who are homeless or whose parents are on drugs. The No Child Left Behind Act, which requires schools to meet certain standards or risk losing federal funding, has intensified the need for good teachers in poor...
...teacher and a mother of two, Anne Betz knows how important a good school is to the life of a small town. Still, it wasn't until Katrina had practically destroyed her hometown of Pass Christian, Miss., and reduced her brand-new house to a mere concrete slab that Betz, 37, realized what a lifesaver a good school could...
...local Wal-Mart, not the gas stations. But what is up and running--and what has given the Betz family enough hope to go back and rebuild their lives--is Coast Episcopal School in nearby Long Beach, which both of Betz's children attend and where she is a teacher. In an otherwise chaotic environment where electricity and phone services are still not fully functioning, the 130-student elementary and middle school is providing a sense of normality. "The school is what's bringing people back," says Betz, who fled Pass Christian for Sandestin, Fla., around 200 miles away...
...both children are happier to be back at their old school, they have had difficulties adjusting. Owen has asked his mom, "Will anything ever be the same?" Jane Todd alternately picks fights with her brother and withdraws to her room. Betz, who before Katrina was the school's gym teacher and admissions director but has now also taken on the first-grade class (replacing a teacher who quit), has had trouble sleeping. And Orfila says, "I find myself going to get something and then realizing it's no longer there...