CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Across Texas, school districts are facing a tough challenge finding enough certified teachers to fill their classrooms. But Corpus Christi ISD, there's a unique solution that's making a real difference. Instead of looking outside, they're growing new teachers from within with their associate teacher's program.

It wasn't part of the plan—but Victoria Garcia's career took an unexpected turn.

"It was not my career path. I did not think about it at all," Victoria said. "I just started tutoring at this campus and then tutoring turned into long term sub and then around that time is when the associate teacher program came out and I had already been at my campus for like a year and a half. So it just made sense for me to go into the associate teacher program and here I am

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