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Last updated on Monday, July 20, 2015
(UNDATED) - A blue-ribbon commission will examine ways Indiana can produce and keep more talented teachers.
State school superintendent Glenda Ritz says Indiana had 14-percent fewer rookie teachers than it needed last year, and says the gap is widening.
Legislators this year passed a proposal from Governor Pence to increase teacher pay, including more performance bonuses, but Ritz says pay alone isn't enough to lure people into teaching. She expects the panel to look at issues from classroom instruction to ongoing training.
Ritz says she'll leave the commission to produce its own ideas, not seek to steer it in any one direction. She says she'd like to have recommendations in time for next year's legislative session.
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