First-grade students line up before the first day of school at Muldown Elementary School in Whitefish on Aug. 22. (Julie Engler/Whitefish Pilot)
September 2, 2022
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Montana works to solve its struggles with teacher pay
Olivia DeJohn laughs as she chalks up having found a classroom she loves so early in her teaching career to serendipity. She teaches second grade at Missoula’s Paxson Elementary School, a job she quips “fell into my lap.”