Opinion: ‘We must find a way to recruit and retain educators’

Baltimore County faces an unprecedented educator shortage, and only bold and forward-looking action by the leaders of this county and school system can fix it. Tuesday’s school board vote to provide the needed funding to recruit and retain critical staff in our schools was the right move, and Baltimore County leadership — Baltimore County Public Schools, Baltimore County government and the Teachers Association of Baltimore County — should work together to find a way to make it sustainable, because not doing so will have long-term and long-reaching effects for the county as a whole.