‘We need teachers’: Rural Nevada schools struggling to attract help. Students are paying the price.

Nye County School Superintendent Warren Shillingburg oversees the schools in Tonopah and the other small towns that dot the sprawling county. He said that without a significant infusion of state cash — to recruit and retain teachers with pay closer to what they’d find in the big cities, to hire specialists to remediate pupils in the basics, to fuel more electives ...