Susanne Brown checks a student’s work as she substitute teaches 2nd grade at Heritage Elementary School in Wake Forest, NC in this 2013 file photo. Wake County is considering a new policy that would ...

What started a few years ago as an occasional gathering of overwhelmed substitute teachers has grown into an unusual statewide effort to train, network, and support these educators who, though not ...

Substitute teachers keep schools running. By the time they graduate high school, students will have spent 8 percent of their K-12 schooling—an average of one school year—with a substitute, according ...