"The scale of it- of this issue, we've never experienced before."
That's Nathan Trenholm, cofounder of data insight partners.
He used to work for CCSD as the Director of Research and Accountability and now he says he's concerned about where things are going.
"Right now in this year over 1700 hundred teachers have said they're leaving the Clark County School District which is 78% more than an average year," he says.
Nathan says that another thousand teachers could leave by July at the pace we're moving.
"40,000 kids without a teacher is extremely alarming to kind of put it into perspective, right. Over in Pahrump in Nye County, they have about 5000 students. They have about 330 teachers. We lost 550 in April alone right. We lost five Pahrump's worth of students over the last three years. We're losing a Pahrump worth of teachers every month," he says.
Nathan says he believes superintendent Jesus Jara and the board of trustees are the ones who need to fix this.
"There are things that you can be doing to support teachers to be supporting the staff in schools instead of trying to roll out new policies, instead of trying to micromanage your principals. you need to trust the adults on the ground," says Trenholm.
Jennece Black agrees.
She left the district in March after teaching at elementary schools in the valley for six years.
"What really did it this time was the insurance. It's always kind of like you have to when my insurance bills started to outweigh my living cost, that was becoming a concern for me," she says.
Jennece said she started getting sent to collections as well as having some providers drop the insurance provided to teachers.
Something especially challenging with her health conditions that require treatment.
"Even in this last school year, people have seen me on walkers. It has been very difficult to walk," she says.
She said teacher pay also didn't help.
"When I left the first time I achieved my master's degree, came back into the district with a master's and I still got grandfathered into the clause of what I got paid as a first-year teacher," she says.
"You're telling me it's gonna take me two years to get a pay raise? And then even when the pay raise comes, it's not going to match inflation, and then it's not going to actually compensate me for my degree? And it's not going to be competitive across the market when you look at other school districts?"
Now she and Nathan worry about what the overall impact will be on students as more teachers separate from CCSD if things don't change.
"They have to make a new relationship with someone who may be temporary or it might be shuffled around with those children or displaced into more classrooms," says Jennece.
"Through June teachers have the opportunity to switch schools. so this teacher shortage problem is not going to be felt equally across all the schools in the district. You're going to have schools with a high percentage of English language learners, students living in poverty, where their teachers now can leave to go to another school," says Nathan.