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Decades. the federal government is pumping millions into districts, requiring them to spend at least 20% on learning loss. schools nationwide have been trying to hire more staff but with teacher burnout and fewer new teachers, many schools face a teacher shortage, especially in rural areas and those with more low income families and students of color. >> afternoon. ids, please. >> reporter: in arizona, some classes have more than 70 students, and in other rooms, edge educators are teaching lessons made by another educator. >> if there's nobody who has the content knowledge to do that, i'm goin...

Focus on the students that i'm standing in front of every day. >> you're worried kids will slip through the cracks. >> absolutely. >> reporter: dr. christy heads the teachers union in prince george's county. >> they were falling through the cracks before and they are going to -- it's going to be like opening the floodgates. >> reporter: casa grand's elementary school district is one of many that's moved to a four-day week to retain staff. their high schools are looking to hire more teachers from overseas, in some classrooms para educators are teaching lessons prepared by a licensed teacher lik...

Cash. but weirdly enough that freedom comes with less freedom like barring schools from teaching lessons on race right wingers call critical race theory and monitoring view points of professors and blocking private employers and schools from mandating vaccines or masks and desantis signed an anti riot law to crack down on police brutality protests and protect drivers who hit protesters with their cars. the federal judge blocked enforcement of that law but if there is one thing you're really not free to do in ron desantis's free state of florida, it's criticize the governor. ben frasier was han...

Committee advanced a bill that would remove those two very controversial provisions. having said all of that, here's what one school district there is already doing. an elementary school in central indiana is facing a backlash for its decision to let parents opt out of planned black history month lessons. the school's counselor informed parents he planned on teaching lessons on equity, caring and understanding differences. but parents could opt out if their kids chose to. their superintendent of the school says the district is gathering more information on the matter, but that it supports teac...

>> i can switch schools. i don't necessarily want to. >> i wouldn't be walking here if no one was wearing a mask. >> you don't have to. carley: that was ponderosa high school senior lexi wagner, she captured that audio exchange with her vice principal while being reprimanded for he refusing to wear a mask. michael wilkes said he was paid on leave for teaching lessons without a mask. lexi and michael join me now. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> good morning. thanks for having us. carley: lexi, tell us about what's now called no mask mondays and how did it start? >> so there a post abou...