CSU-Pueblo receives money to help smaller school districts

CSU-Pueblo said there is a teacher shortage at rural school districts in southern Colorado, but the university received money to help with that problem.

The university received a more than $200,000 federal grant.

CSU-Pueblo said it is going to use the money to help recruit and retain teachers by offering more money or other incentives to work in the smaller school districts.

Morgan McDonald is a teaching major at CSU-Pueblo. She said she would jump on the opportunity.

“It’s an underserved bunch of kids and now since we have the equipment and the funding that we could go do that and do it well, it’s something that I would want to do,” she said.

CSU-Pueblo is one of three colleges in the state to receive the grant.