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Where to find a teaching job: How about Unalaska, Alaska?

By Betsy Hammond, The Oregonian

April 07, 2010, 1:06PM

courtesy of Unalaska schoolsAmong the many interesting and upbeat tidbits I ran across during an an otherwise disheartening daylong job fair at which thousands of aspiring teachers did not get job offers was this:

The school district of Unalaska, Alaska, is hiring. And Superintendent John Conwell was willing to travel 2,000 miles to Portland, Oregon, in hopes of finding a top-notch high school math and science teacher. (He's also fishing for a health and PE teacher, an elementary principal and, like most school districts a lot closer to Portland, a special ed teacher.)

For those who've never heard of Unalaska, it's waaaaaaay out on the Aleutian Arc, about 800 miles southwest of Anchorage. Conwell jokes that, while it's not in the middle of nowhere, you can see nowhere from