Rising Homes Prices Are Keeping Teachers Out Of Las Vegas; Schools May Have A Solution

According to reports released on Thursday, Clark County school officials are putting together a proposal that would allow them to purchase Las Vegas real estate so that they could own and offer local homes to teachers that would come to Las Vegas.

Officials say that there really is no choice; they must buy the land to fill a critical shortage of teachers by helping them find affordable housing.

Administrators are saying that they think the program could be up and running by 2008. According to George Ann Rice, Clark County School District associate superintendent of personnel, the top reason teachers are turning down jobs or in some cases, flat out not applying, is because of rising local home prices.