Even with govt help, prefectures still need over 100 replacements The Yomiuri Shimbun Disaster-hit Iwate and Miyagi prefectures need more than 100 additional teachers despite the education ministry's planned dispatch of teachers to help children catch up with their studies and provide them with counseling after the Great East Japan Earthquake.
Iwate Prefecture had to decline an offer of outside teachers because it cannot secure accommodations for them.
As of Monday, at least 20 public school teachers were confirmed to have died in the disaster in Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures.
Teachers are needed at inland schools that are accepting individual students or whole classes from tsunami-hit schools in coastal areas, according to the Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry.
At the end of April, the ministry decided to dispatch 424 teachers--more than twice the 207 it sent after the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake--to four prefectures afflicted by the earthquake and tsunami on March 11 at government expense.
Prefectural education boards in Miyagi and Iwate, meanwhile, have urgently recruited teachers.
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