EDS: Clients who used the Cronkite News story slugged BC-CNS-Teacher Shortage that moved Wednesday,  Oct. 4, under a WASHINGTON dateline are asked to run the following correction. The errors occurred throughout the story and in the accompanying graphic. A corrected version the graphic is here and a corrected writethru of the story has been posted here.

WASHINGTON – An Oct. 4 Cronkite News story about teacher shortages in Arizona incorrectly reported the scope of teacher vacancies this fall. The report by the Arizona School Personnel Administrators Association said that 7,518.3 teacher positions needed to be filled this fall in 131 surveyed school districts, but 2,229.7 were still vacant as of September, or 29.7% of the openings. It also said that of the vacancies filled this fall, 3,997.4 were filled by noncertified teachers.