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Astepro and go. school districts nationwide are getting ready to welcome students back tomorrow and some classes aren't even fully staffed. as a teacher shortage in america hits crisis levels, some states are scrambling, trying to find creative ways to bring educators into its classrooms. my next guest leads one of those school districts. jesus jara is the superintendent for nevada's clark county school district which serves over 320,000 students. so good to see you. >> it's good to see you, fredericka, thank you for the opportunity. >> absolutely.

Action was taken. that's totally inexcusable. so there's multiple failure at multiple levels and multiple people that are responsible for those failures, no questionlonis it rise to negligence or any criminality? >> you know, fredericka, this is such an interesting question because we've had so many of these mass school shootings sadly, we are seeing now lawsuits being brought in these cases to try to hold more people accountable than just the shooter because we're seeing it takes a lot of people to try to stop these things. so to try to stem future ones, they're holding other people accountab...

It was causing. there's a lot in this report. of course, family members are getting a chance to review this and ask questions here later today. it's going to be a particularly difficult day for them as they hear some of this information. we're expected to hear from officials later today, and i can tell you there's a lot more to come certainly about the training that perhaps the police department here is going to need to make changes to and other concerns involving the uvalde police department and also changes at the school, fredericka. >> i wonder, shimon, many of the things you had mentioned,...

That's the job of that first officer. there was a complete breakdown in that. and usually what happens in these situations is it could be anyone really. but there really was no one here. there was -- you know, there was the chief t school chief. there was another senior official, law enforcement official who's a lieutenant from the uvalde police department. he was the acting chief of that day because the police chief of the uvalde police department was on vacation. so he was in an acting role. so they had the senior leadership there. the people who had the title, the people who were supposed t...

Brought against the school in that case. and then in the parkland, florida, shooting, we saw the prosecutor do something very interesting here. they criminally charged the school resource officer. now, rarely if ever have police officers been charged criminally in cases like this because there's actually no duty for police to protect you from violence. interesting, but that's the way the constitution has been d defined by the supreme court. he actually had a duty, kind of like a caretaker to these children, so that he could be found criminally negligent. and also they've charged him with child...