The Natchez-Adams School District has worked quickly and efficiently to resolve the district’s hiring woes.

At the beginning of the summer the district needed to hire 60 teachers. As the new school year begins, the district has whittled that number down to merely nine vacancies.

The district has accomplished that through a combination of ingenuity and hard work.

Led by interim superintendent Fred Butcher, the district has merged some of the former academies together to eliminate some of the vacancies through consolidation. But more than that Butcher and his team have worked hard to recognize the fast need to hire permanent substitutes to fill some of the slots. While not ideal — particularly because the substitutes don’t have teaching experience — the move quickly solidifies the district’s hiring needs.

Butcher and crew face an unenviable task — recruiting people to a district recently rocked by turmoil and strife after the ouster of the last superintendent. They appear to have made the best lemonade out of the lemons they were dealt.

We continue to wish the district’s leadership the best of luck as they continue rebuilding the district to greatness again.