From the brief: "In the Providence Public School District (PPSD), roughly 5% of all teaching positions (about 75 a year) have historically remained unfilled by the start of school. As part of the state takeover, the district took aim at this challenge, moving up the hiring timeline, mounting a recruitment campaign, and making it a key priority to fill as many open teacher positions as possible. PPSD did several things to improve staffing – it moved up the district’s hiring timeline and launched a recruitment campaign. However, the pandemic and the turnaround also had substantial impacts on the teacher labor market. We anticipate that the pandemic and turnaround efforts will continue to shape the teacher labor market over the next hiring cycle, suggesting that even more proactive attention to staffing all classrooms will be necessary for the 2021-22 school year."