11.   - Hiring new teachers.

12.   A new recommended graduation plan requires more foreign language and math courses than the minimum plan and will force some school districts to hire more teachers.

13.   A shortened school day would allow a district to hire fewer teachers per school, Cugini said.

14.   All three candidates called for more spending for schools to hire more teachers, rebuild deteriorated buildings and start pre-kindergarten programs.

15.   But Bakama is hiring the teachers, who are not unionized, and setting their pay rates.

16.   But Albers said even Midway is finding it tougher to hire teachers in critically short areas.

17.   But granting job security to every union member means a loss of flexibility to hire teachers in the areas where they may be most needed.

18.   But one thing many experts agree on is that much of new money has been used to hire new teachers.

19.   But the commission warned that many math and science teachers are hired away by private firms that offer higher pay.

20.   But school districts need to know now how many teachers they can hire, how many classrooms they can build and what the class size should be this fall.