Maryland Attracting Teachers: State escapes the school budget cuts that are common elsewhere

The Baltimore Sun reports:

While they anxiously wait to find out if their teaching jobs in northern New Jersey will survive that state's budget cuts, Christopher Bell and his wife are beginning to consider where they might go to find employment.

Maryland is appealing because most of its school systems are not planning to lay off teachers. So Bell is putting in his paperwork to get a teaching certificate here.

It is teachers like Bell who are making schools across the state feel suddenly flush with high-quality job applicants to fill the fewer-than-usual number of vacancies. This is a time, human resource officers say, that they will have their pick of the best and the brightest.