While thousands of teachers face the looming threat of layoffs across California, one Inland Empire school district is looking to make an employment trend in the opposite direction. San Bernardino City Unified School District recently held a teacher recruitment fair, where they hired 40 teachers on the spot. They're hopeful to keep things moving in the same direction, filling classrooms with educators that apply passion to the rewarding profession.
They say that more development in the area and more people moving to the Inland Empire, they've opted to invest more in their teachers, while other districts prepare to let go of staff for budget shortfalls, higher costs and declining enrollment rates. 'If you want to be a teacher and you come to San Bernardino, you're gonna be successful here, because there's a lot of support,' Arellano said.