Pennsylvania Teacher Shortages. For the 2016-2017 academic year, the state of Pennsylvania had a statewide shortage of teachers in the following academic disciplines or subject matter:. PreK-12: Special Education Nursery-12: Hearing Impaired, Speech and Language Impaired Secondary: Foreign Language and Literature, Life and Physical Sciences Grades 7-12: Mathematics
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