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Gov. Cox asks 22,000 state employees to fill in as schools face staffing crisis

State employees can take administrative leave to fill in at public and private schools, which have been heavily impacted by COVID-19.

(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) Jack Legge, a substitute at Northlake Elementary in the Tooele School District, teaches in this photo from 2020. Gov. Spencer Cox announced on Monday, Jan. 31, 2021, that he will now be allowing state employees to work as substitute teachers to address the staffing shortage in schools with the pandemic.